Comments on: Windows Vista Ultimate installation (update 2)

By: install dan set up Samba linux[Redhat Enterprise(RHEL), CentOS, Fedora] « Irsukal Punya

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:50:54 +0000

[...] Setting up Samba “can” be complicated at times. Especially if you are looking for instructions online where there are WAY too many tutorials which go in to details about what configuration does what, etc. Well, this post is nothing like that. Here I just show you quick and easy way to install Samba, configure it, and set up the drive letter on your XP/Vista. NOTE: for using Samba with Vista, please see my previous post in which I talk about changing settings in Vista so you can connect to your Samba share: Windows Vista Installation [...]

By: Momo

Momo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:56:01 +0000

It’s such a hell to install… Hangs on “Completing Installation…” Those 3 elipsis just wont go away. *sigh* I’d stick to dependable XP for the time being.

By: CrazyToon

CrazyToon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:31:56 +0000

Yeah… I got tired of so many things that I have decided to go back to XP until Microsoft gets Vista more stable and get more vendors to release appropriate upgrades. For example, it would be nice to see VMware release Windows Vista version so it does take days to start Virtual Machines. I will be blogging about all my problems in conclusion blog in next few days.

By: Pontus Mårtenson

Pontus Mårtenson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:15:28 +0000

I just encountered the same problem as Joseph. If I had other installation media right now I wouldn’t be typing this but would be entering installation details atm.

The lack of error-messages is utterly annoying.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Do you want another bug in Vista that not a single person at M$ seems to know about? Here you go:

At our office, we have somewhat of a mesh of VPN networks. We have various sites that are connected to one another and our office is sort of the poor brother who doesn’t get the cool toys, so I have to do VPN using RRAS on a Windows 2003 server which is NOT my default gateway for my office computers… So far so good.

In order for me to get around the routing issue, I could either use static routing on all office computers or putting the static routes on the firewall. The latter is out of question because… it just fails.

So let’s go to option one. Now I am not about to manually do static routes on all computers using batch file and login script. That’s old school. It’s 2007, so let’s get up to speed here. I decided to use the very unpopular Windows DHCP server option called Static Routes (029 I believe). Hardly anyone uses it and I came across it by pure coincident. So I did and Viola! All my workstations are gain those static routes with their DHCP IP address. Pretty sweet….

Now try putting a Vista computer on this LAN and set it up as DHCP client. Tell me if you can obtain an IP address. I pulled my hair for a whole week trying to figure out what the heck is wrong. Only when it dawned on me, while I was on the John, that I have this feature that perhaps could be causing it. I ran to the DHCP server, don’t worry I washed my hands, and disabled it and tried obtaining an IP address.. Viola!

Look it up and you will not find a single post on this. I seem to be the only one in the world using this DHCP option, at least who’s tried Vista.

Joseph

By: jeev

jeev — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:47:14 +0000

start menu rules in classic mode, run is back!