External Drives Loose Sharing on Reboot - Vista Ultimate

In Vista Ultimate...
I have several (8) USB external HDD's (Maxtor, Western Digital, 500GB
MyBooks) which need to be shared on the network.
I have successfully been able to create shares and permissions and theses
shares are visible from other workstations on the network...
However, when the Vista machine that the external HDD's are connected to
reboots, the shares are gone and must be re-created.
This happens fairly consistantly, but NOT every reboot.
This never happened in XP Pro, and I have other Vista machines that this has
not happen to.
Is there something other than sharing that needs to be done to maintain
sharing?
Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?

We have seen some cases like this one. I believe that external drive needs a new firmware.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Aart" <Aart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F0662E90-7A9A-43E9-A41F-F0C4A02CEE57@microsoft.com...
In Vista Ultimate...
I have several (8) USB external HDD's (Maxtor, Western Digital, 500GB
MyBooks) which need to be shared on the network.
I have successfully been able to create shares and permissions and theses
shares are visible from other workstations on the network...
However, when the Vista machine that the external HDD's are connected to
reboots, the shares are gone and must be re-created.
This happens fairly consistantly, but NOT every reboot.
This never happened in XP Pro, and I have other Vista machines that this has
not happen to.
Is there something other than sharing that needs to be done to maintain
sharing?
Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?

Aart,

I'm sorry that you're experiencing trouble. Vista supports NTLM v2 by
default. You may need to either upgrade the firmware of your NAS to support
NTLM v2, or you can lower the security policy in Vista. This is, however,
not recommended for security reasons. You can lower the security setting by
opening regedit and changing
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel
from 0x3 to
0x1.

Again, this is not recommended for security reasons.

Please post back to let us know if this worked.



"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> We have seen some cases like this one. I believe that external drive needs a new firmware.
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Aart" <Aart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F0662E90-7A9A-43E9-A41F-F0C4A02CEE57@microsoft.com...
> In Vista Ultimate...
> I have several (8) USB external HDD's (Maxtor, Western Digital, 500GB
> MyBooks) which need to be shared on the network.
> I have successfully been able to create shares and permissions and theses
> shares are visible from other workstations on the network...
> However, when the Vista machine that the external HDD's are connected to
> reboots, the shares are gone and must be re-created.
> This happens fairly consistantly, but NOT every reboot.
> This never happened in XP Pro, and I have other Vista machines that this has
> not happen to.
> Is there something other than sharing that needs to be done to maintain
> sharing?
> Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?