Ok system variables in vista can be found by going to the control panel, hitting “system and maintenance” then clicking “system” and “advanced system settings” then on the system properties click the advanced tab and then the big button “environment variables” bottom left….
Category Archives: Software
Accessing Vista with smbclient
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
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.
passing parameters to nant from Cruise Control how…
right the solution is to pass it in the buildArgs element, so if you want the verbose option on for nant you add an element inside your build elements called buildArgs with -verbose+
mysql error "#1030 – Got error 28 from table handler"
Was getting the error #1030 – Got error 28 from table handler on one of my customers boxes realised that the partition was out of disk space.
excluding a dependency via UP2Date
always wondered how to exclude from up2date finally got off my backside and looked into it…
for all you out there that dont know its up2date –update –exclude=
Reading memo fields in Access using asp and ado
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
CSS and Accomodating different browsers
the same old problem, using css different things appear in different places. The solution you have to trick some of the browsers so you can use different css tags – this is one of the best sites I have seen for a long time documenting the features of each browser.
enjoy…
Undefined reference to errno with make of checkpassword
On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile
You need to do the following….
mv error.h error.h.orig
sed -e ‘s/extern int errno;/#include