Any of you guys familiar with windows 2008?

[joyride]

So Im setting up my render farm and struggling with the new operating systems. If I were on all XP, this wouldnt be an issue. Anyway, I have a desktop that I am using as the main unit. It has a hard drive that I need to share (map) throughout the network. The desktop is running windows 7. I have a wireless connection to the internet, and another closed system to a switch (which connects the two servers).

The problem I am having is connecting the mapped drive on the servers (each running 2008). From what I can see, it does not function the same (with workgroups) as win7. I can see the drive, but it will not allow me to connect. Also, my render spawner is seen on the desktop, but will time out. I think that one of the computers is blocking the other. I have turned off firewalls, and set all the sharing access to 'no password' and it still wont work. Is there anyway in 2008 to set up a 'workgroup' similar to win7?

[Francious70]

So Im setting up my render farm and struggling with the new operating systems. If I were on all XP, this wouldnt be an issue. Anyway, I have a desktop that I am using as the main unit. It has a hard drive that I need to share (map) throughout the network. The desktop is running windows 7. I have a wireless connection to the internet, and another closed system to a switch (which connects the two servers).

The problem I am having is connecting the mapped drive on the servers (each running 2008). From what I can see, it does not function the same (with workgroups) as win7. I can see the drive, but it will not allow me to connect. Also, my render spawner is seen on the desktop, but will time out. I think that one of the computers is blocking the other. I have turned off firewalls, and set all the sharing access to 'no password' and it still wont work. Is there anyway in 2008 to set up a 'workgroup' similar to win7?

Have you tried setting user permissions to "everyone"?

And when you say 2008, you are referring to Server 2008, right?

[joyride]

Yes, it is the server edition. I needed to use it rather than a standard edition due to using 4 physical procesors per computer. I have set the permissions to everyone, but it was still being a pain in the ass. I have taken some time off from trying to figure it out, but now that I am in a permanent place I will be revisiting this soon. Any ideas other than setting permissions?

[Francious70]

I know this might sound retarded, but in your network connection settings, do you have file sharing turned on?

[joyride]

yup, everything is on.

[Francious70]

Sorry friend, that's about the limit of my knowledge.

[fuzzysnuggleduck]

What happens when you try to connect to the shares? Does it ask for a login (username/pass) and simply fail, regardless of whether you're inputting the correct pair or does it report a error?

[joyride]

Currently they are in boxes so I cant try at this moment. But going off memory, I think that they would ask for the user/PW and then fail.