MyPS2 Samba Craches Windows XP Professional

[anas]

I have successfully setup myPS2 and its currently working perfectly except the Samba part,

I have a shared folder on my Windows XP Professional machine which I can see from other computers on the network. However, every time i try to connect to this folder, my PC crashes with a blue screen of death :-(

Please advise as this is driving me crazy!

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[Jones23]

Windows sucks!
Use uLE and SMS with the host function that's far better than Samba. And uLE and SMS are far better than myPS2.

[ffgriever]

But unfortunately most people care about how application looks. That's why every new version of windows is more and more popular (more copies sold). I'm not very different as I use windows everyday (but the ayecandies are not what convinced me, it is windows popularity itself - ironic?). But I use linux for many things that are impossible or hard to achieve using windows.

[dlanor]

I have successfully setup myPS2 and its currently working perfectly except the Samba part,

I, on the other hand, have a samba setup that works fine with myPS2, accessing shared folders on both my PCs, one running WinXP Pro and the other running Win2K, so it can definitely be done. I can't say I've tested this setup heavily, as I prefer using uLaunchELF, but ever since I succeeded in making the Samba setup work, it has worked each time I tried it. So there is some consistency to it, even though I rarely use it.

I have a shared folder on my Windows XP Professional machine which I can see from other computers on the network. However, every time i try to connect to this folder, my PC crashes with a blue screen of death :-(

Unfortunately that is the default behaviour of 'Windows' whenever an error condition occurs that the OS can detect but the programmers have not prepared for (in the sense of creating some special handler for it). That is bad design, but out of our hands.

Please advise as this is driving me crazy!

I have a setup that works, and you have one that doesn't, and without any details of your setup a better comparison is impossible, and so is any relevant advice.

Of course I could start giving you advice at random, hoping to hit a spot that you missed, but that would be very chancy. You are the only one with access to your setup, so it is you that should present it to us, to get our opinions on possible flaws in it.

As always it is the configuration files that are of greatest interest, including at least the following:

CONFIG.DAT (from the main myPS2 folder)
samba.xml (from the main myPS2 folder)
lmhosts (from mc0: root, if you use such a file)

Note that the last file, "lmhosts" is optional, for use when you want symbolic workstation names instead of absolute IP numbers in "samba.xml".

Note also that a proper "samba.xml" may need to contain user account information for your computers, so you may wish to mask that info before sharing the files. That depends on your security needs and your corresponding setups on those computers (file sharing policies etc).

Best regards: dlanor

[dlanor]

But unfortunately most people care about how application looks. That's why every new version of windows is more and more popular (more copies sold). I'm not very different as I use windows everyday (but the ayecandies are not what convinced me, it is windows popularity itself - ironic?).

Ironic, perhaps, but also inevitable.

Any platform that is dominant in usage becomes of great importance to all users, no matter whether they like or dislike it. That is the platform which nearly all programs are designed for, and for which debugging efforts are most heavily invested, and consequently that is where most software is likely to work the best, even if it's not a superior system.

But I use linux for many things that are impossible or hard to achieve using windows.

I know Linux can allow more total control of the system than Windows, but it can also demand a lot of user involvement for that. And for anyone switching to Linux from Windows it certainly will demand a lot of time and work, just to get every thing set up and working to the same extent of the old Windows setup. So I've chosen to abstain from Linux experiments, at least for now.

Regardless of what system we use, we should remember that they are only tools for achieving what we want, rather than ends in themselves...

Best regards: dlanor