network shares

[mauriceb]

What I am going to say now makes absolutely no sense to me, but someone very knowledgeable told me about it and this is what finally resolved all the problems I was having when trying to network Vista & XP. Again, this makes no sense to me, but it worked when I ran out of ideas.

For some unknown reason, Vista likes to be connected to a router instead of just a switch or hub. When I had all the PCs connected to a switch, I could not get things to work properly including the Network type. What finally did it was to connect all the PCs to a hub (or switch) and connect the hub to a router. I set all the PCs to DHCP with the router IP address being the default gateway & providing the IP addresses. I know PM recommends static IP addresses but it is really not essential and you can switch to static IP anyway after you get everything working OK.

Again, let me say that this makes no sense to me and it may have had nothing to do with solving my problems, but it did and I can't explain why. So, if you do have a router handy, you may want to try that as well. The router does not need to be connected to the Internet via a DSL modem or other access point. All the router need to be is present in the configuration. I'm 100% sure there must be other way(s), but this is the one that worked for me.

Maurice

Edit: One more thing. You can also try using just a router if the router has enough ports for all your PCs. The hub or switch is needed only if you need more Ethernet ports.

[JBaymore]

There is a local PC shop near my house that has the solution for this situation posted on their main front sign:

"We remove Vista and install XP".

best,

..................john

[mauriceb]

There is a local PC shop near my house that has the solution for this situation posted on their main front sign:

"We remove Vista and install XP".

best,

..................john

That would work too

Maurice

[super80]

There is a local PC shop near my house that has the solution for this situation posted on their main front sign:

"We remove Vista and install XP".

best,

..................john

hehehe..... that is definitely an option I suppose

[Thomas Richter]

Hi

Here I use in my network
FS - Vista 32
x4 Client's - XP Pro
x1 Client - Vista 64
x1 Client Vista 32
x1 Client Win 2000 Pro

There is NO problem at all.
One easy important thing to give rights to any PC is - Just use on ALL PC's the same User Name!!
So you don't need to give rights to different User's because you are ever the same and Win XP/Vista doesn't see the difference.
Then it is much easier to do the rest.

[Rodney]

Hello,

I am running the most recent pm builds for Boeing PFD, MCP and CDU on separate client machines. The clients are running xp. My server is running fsx on Vista home 32. The problem is that on my client machines pmfilecheck keeps coming back and saying that I need to share FSPLANS and FS.

On my server, I double checked the fileshares, and I tested the client machines to make sure they can see this shares. The shares are definitely there, and I tested to make sure that the clients have full read /write access as well. I am not sure what to try at this point.

Does pmfilecheck look for the share name to be in all CAPS? The reason I asked is that vista changes the sharename to Fsplans instead of FSPLANS. Not sure if this matters..

FYI, I am running latest FSUIPC.


Thanks,
Vic

Vic,
I take it you are talking FSX? I had this too, but I am not using Vista anywhere on my network.

RESOLVED: I named the FSX directory share FSPATH. I don't ever remember doing that in FS9.

[Thomas Richter]

Hi

A known problem of Vista's security system is that you can not share a program folder of "program files" folder.
So if you have installed FSX or FS9 in the main program's folder of Vista you can not really share it.
Best is ever to create its own subfolder in the main drive folder.

[super80]

Vic,
I take it you are talking FSX? I had this too, but I am not using Vista anywhere on my network.

RESOLVED: I named the FSX directory share FSPATH. I don't ever remember doing that in FS9.

Hi Rodney,

Yes, FSX running on a Vista 32 PC. The clients are XP.

BTW, are you saying that renaming your FSX directory share to FSPATH solved your comms problem? Also, I want to confirm that you are referring to your MSFS main program folder?

Regards,
Vic

[Rodney]

Hi Rodney,

Yes, FSX running on a Vista 32 PC. The clients are XP.

BTW, are you saying that renaming your FSX directory share to FSPATH solved your comms problem? Also, I want to confirm that you are referring to your MSFS main program folder?

Regards,
Vic

Vic,
Yes that is correct. I share my MSFS folder which I name FSX when installing and share that folder as FSPATH. I have not ever let the program install under program files. Always on the root of the drive.