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Accessing Vista with smbclient

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Just bought a new machine and decided to put VISTA on it.  Now biggest problem was accessing the shares via smbclient or Samba.  Hunted high and low on the net couldnt find anything not specific for VISTA and smbclient.

I then looked for windows xp and smbclient and found a post about changing a registry entry.  Up to this point I had tried everything everyone else was saying like enable file sharing, private sharing etc and couldnt get any of that too work at all.

Probably works via another vista machine but not from linux or my apple.

I upgraded samba to the latest version before doing this.  I then added a registry entry in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

called LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy which a hexadecimal value of 1 and bobs your uncle you should be able to access shares and admin shares such as C$ on the vista machine from smbclient or mounting it in the fstab.

Hope that helped you, it helped me no end as I was getting very frustrated about it.  And samba is key to my machines here.

 

Upgraded to Subtext 1.9

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Right havent blogged for ages as was getting loads of spam under the old .text blogging software.

But just upgraded to SubText and looks very good, I think the guys on this project have done extremely well.

Was a fairly easy upgrade from .text only problem I did have was primary key violations on the conversion scripts. After lots of digging and scratching heads just re-ran the script and it worked which I am not sure why, only thing I can think is someone else was creating blogs while I was trying to do the conversion.

But no love it, used water theme and added my disclaimer at the bottom.

Reading memo fields in Access using asp and ado

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as a reminder to myself really, in access 2000 there is now a memo field these can only be read once from the ado recordset in asp.  The second time the field will be null, ie if you do the following…

<%= myRS("linkname") %>

<%= myRS("linkname") %>

twice the second one doesnt return anything as it loses the field contents, I believe this is by design

Just got into the VOIP world here….

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Right this is the what I got up to on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
 
Looked at vonage http://www.vonage.co.uk and asked them twice before launching into it if I could use my own hardware and both times yes and yes.
 
Bought my own hardware which is a Cisco ATA 186 £80 ish trade price.  Then signed up for vonage and they then said oh no you cant use your own hardware as its chipped especially for their network !!   I must say be afraid of this company all customer services in America and tech support is either India or America and its a real pain trying to ask them anything.
 
so ummed and arghed do I just get their router etc and thought no I would cancel it, luckily I did as after 14 days you have to pay to get off their subscription service.
 
So then found sipgate http://www.sipgate.co.uk and that was good especially as they have a 1/2p a minute plan but couldnt make any outgoing calls to the pstn network.  Still ongoing with them as they are not sure its them yet, but something is funny.  Just email support which isnt that hot.
 
So then looked up gradwell http://www.gradwell.co.uk and all worked out of the box first time no probs crystal clear but they charge 1.25p a minute and after initial 3 months its £4 a month which isnt too bad.  But you can ring these guys up and talk over any support issues which is excellent.
 
Oh one other thing I couldnt get my old bt handset to work with the cisco kit so bought a new bt phone and that still didnt work so then as I knew our bang & olufsen worked bought another of them at £200 but it just needs a phone that has power on the line as the bt phones get their power from the analogue line, I think thats what the problem was.
 
And thats it, then your in the voip world

The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path

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The famous error “The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path” in visual studio .net.  Basically you have either lost your .webinfo file or your .webinfo file is pointing to the wrong project or wrong place.

Took me a while to figure it out but hope that helps someone.  Hopefully the source code provider isnt so buggy in Visual Studio 2005.