Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category.
July 4, 2010, 5:22 pm
I bought an Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT Network Dual Tuner on the recommendation of my brother. Being a dual tuner, you can either watch/record two TV channels simultaneously or have two users on your network watch one TV channel each.
The biggest issue with EyeTV is the lack of electronic programme guide. OK, you can get a trial subscription to IceTV, but that’s not good enough when compared to Windows Media Centre (WMC). Did you know that MWC has a free EPG? That’s right, free. Why can’t Elgato arrange for a free EPG for EyeTV.
Luckily for us here in Australia, Paul Shipley has written a tool to generate an XMLTV formatted EPG which can be impored by EyeTV. Thanks to Paul, I now have an EPG for EyeTV.
March 23, 2010, 10:26 pm
Tonight, I tried to connect my Mac Mini to a Windows 7 share. As you can probably guess, what should have been stupidly simple was frustratingly complex. Thanks Microsoft, for nothing.
As it turns out, Microsoft have tweaked the SMB protocol to make it incompatible with Mac OS X (10.6.2) and samba (3.4.7 on my Debian machine) on Linux. Microsoft have changed a few settings so that Windows 7 network shares no longer behave like the LAN Manager shares of Windows XP.
What you have to do is this … (apologies to person who I copied this from because I did not record their URL)
On your Windows 7 machine, navigate to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy. In the left hand pane, expand Local Polices -> Security Options. In the right hand pane, scroll down to …
- Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level and change the value from Not defined to Send LM & NTLM responses; and
- Minimum session security for NTLM SSP (there’s two entries — one for client and one for server so I changed both) and uncheck the Require 128-bit encryption.
After you make those three changes, reboot.
You should now be able to connect your Mac and Linux machines to your Windows 7 shares.