Monthly Archives: November 2007
problems with vista and samba shares
My Dad has just bought a new laptop with windows vista ultimate installed, and he also has a NAS device installed on his home network. The device works fine with Windows XP or Lower. The problems came when he tried accessing a share with Windows Vista, it just locked the computer up and didn’t let you access the data. This then needed ending the EXPLORER task in windows and starting it back up again. After hours of searching on the internet for a solution I came across this easy guaranteed solution. Here is what it told me to do.
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Maintenance
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Double-Click Local Security Policy
6. In the left pane, click the triangle next to Local Policy
7. In the left pane, click Security Options
8. In the right pane near the bottom, double-click “Network security: LAN manager authentication level”
9. Click the drop-down box, and click “Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”
10. Click OK
Then I had a brain wave, I would log onto the NAS device (as it has a web interface) and look for the model number of the device. Unfortunately it didn’t give any details away about the Make/Model. So I had one last hope I copied the firmware version of the device and put it onto Google. It came back with a forum page saying this is a more commonly known name for this kind of device (I can’t remember the name) but I went to the website and downloaded the latest firmware for the device. This failed to update 3 times but on the 4th time SUCCESS it worked. The firmware was now updated. I rebooted the device and it didn’t come back up, tried another reboot and it worked. I tried access the shares from vista and voila it worked!
N95 Battery Problems
For the past few weeks i have been getting some problems with my N95, the problem has been where the battery has been getting so hot and the battery is draining within an hour. I haven’t got wifi or bluetooth turned on so i know its not that. I dont even have to touch my phone and this happens. Anyone got any ideas? Apart from saying its a shite phone? 
easy way to create a mysql database
Whilst looking on the internet for something i came across this nice and simple guide to creating a MySql database.
it is a pretty vital part to this!
Enter password:
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
rhodzy goes energy efficient
Well for some time now i have been wondering about how much it costs a day to run a PC. I did abit of surfing on the internet and it turned out it wasnt as cheap as i thought. So i have decided to build a “super computer” that runs everything i need. Currently i have 4 PC’s that are on constantly and sometimes even 2 laptops. Due to the lack of funds at the moment, im putting the “super computer” on hold until i can afford the very best that i need. So im currently moving data from each computer to my LAN SERVER and moving programs that i use on different machines and getting them to work on “my best” computer. Im just working my way around getting rid of my webserver currently running linux and various PHP programs, and getting them all to work under vista. So far i have got mysql, php and apache web server running under vista, so now i have the hard part of extracting all my data from my “mysql” databases and importing them into the vista one. Hopefully it shouldnt take too long because im using “phpmyadmin” Will post again when i have got this sorted