Lan hard drive sharing problems on Vista

[kurma]

I have a small LAN with a PC win2000 sp4, a N&C lan hard drive and a Oki printer, everything is OK.

The problem is when I connect a laptop with vista home premium: I can not use the lan hard drive.
I can access it, and see the root directory, but when I try to enter some dir, or open a file it stands forever......
I have tried connecting another cpu, with vista ultimate, same problem.

I can ping the driver from vista, I've tried with static and dynamic IPs, all PCs are in the same workgroup.....

I haven't found any firmware update for the drive.

I suppose it is not a firewall issue, as I have full access to internet.
Wonder how could I resolve it.... I suppose is some security issue in Vista??

[johnwill]

It's likely the version of Linux used for the embedded software in the NAS drive. I had a similar issue with a drive here, there was finally a firmware update that resolved the issue.

[kurma]

Originally Posted by johnwill

It's likely the version of Linux used for the embedded software in the NAS drive. I had a similar issue with a drive here, there was finally a firmware update that resolved the issue.

After a long search, I found out that the external drive is FAT32, while vista doesn't recognize it.......

I'm in a backup process to reformat it, still not sure it will be fixed....

The firmware in the drive is previous to vista, but I didn't find any update....
(N&C Connection LAN Drive).

[johnwill]

Actually, that's incorrect. Vista has no issues recognizing FAT32 volumes, and both my Vista laptop and desktop machine read them just fine. Reformatting isn't going to solve this issue. I suspect the only other option is the Linux native filesystem, probably EXT3 or similar.