Unable to access a network share using Windows SSO?

We use an inexpensive NAS device from Iomega (StorCenter Pro 150d) in our office for personal/test server backups. This has been operational for more than a year with minimal to no issues. We had tied the device to our local Windows domain for user authentication and that was trivial to set up as well. Today, we started having issues with users being prompted to login when accessing the 150d as a network share even after logging in to the Windows domain, specifying their correct credentials, and immediately being prompted to login again. Obviously, not very functional!

My new Dell Latitude D830 keeps freezing repeatedly! :(

I recently changed my laptop and got a new Dell Latitude D830 (with a Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 4GB RAM, and a 160GB 7200 RPM hard disk) with Windows XP. I was initially very happy with my new laptop but in the last week I have been experiencing frequent system freezes – almost once a day and today had it happen twice! The laptop simply stops responding to mouse clicks/keys after running just fine for a few hours. The only way out is for me to hard reset the laptop. I have yet to see any kind of pattern to these freezes. It is extremely frustrating. I ran a memory test using memtest+ overnight for 8+ hours but everything looked fine. I have run some Dell diagnostics and have not found anything wrong yet. I plan to run more comprehensive diagnostics overnight. I also am running some perfmon logging with the hope that I might see something in the logs that might give me a clue. These problems sure seem hard to track down. Anybody have a clue on what I can do?

PS: Please read my comments below for updates and resolution – yes, the issue may be fixed finally.

PPS: August 3, 2008 update: Nope, the issue is not fixed!

PPPS: September 27, 2008 update: I am hopeful again that my issue has been resolved -read below for updates/resolution.

PPPS: October 5, 2008 update: Check out my follow-up post on a summary of my laptop freeze resolution steps.

Released myself from Vista hell – completed my upgrade to Win XP!

Yes, yes, and yes! Last week, I finally decided to admit defeat and upgrade to XP from Vista. The final straw in the coffin was Vista’s repeated propensity for killing IBM Rational Application Developer v7. Yes, RAD is bloatware in several respects, but Vista would also kill Windows Explorer repeatedly. You would think the O/S would be able to control a key component like Windows Explorer better. Anyways, I had it with Vista and reinstalled XP on my laptop. Whew! It is good to be back to a real Operating System that actually delivers acceptable performance.

RDC Tip: How do you transfer files between local/remote computers over terminal services?

I have always had a complaint against Windows terminal services (aka remote desktop connections) that you could not easily transfer files between the drives on the local and remote computers. Well, thanks to Claudio I discovered that my complaint did not have a basis in fact and it was just my ignorance.

Seem to have fixed my Windows Vista Network Performance Woes!

I just had a quick update on my Windows Vista issues in general, and my network performance in particular. As I had written earlier, since getting my new Vista laptop, I had experienced slow network performance compared to Windows XP computers with the same ISP connection. I had turned off auto-tuning by executing netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable on a command prompt run with administrator access. This had helped, but not all the way. I was still experiencing occasional issues with using network shares at work.