01-25-2024, 04:57 PM
(01-25-2024, 03:55 PM)Tonewheelkev Wrote: Couldn't resist it....
Hostname : Moode (not very imaginative I know)...searched registry....and deleted all refs
Similarly with smb.....only one found.
Rebooting PC....plot thickens.
Network now has a new Folder....Moode....NO credentials asked for!
Inside....all the folders that are SMB scanned in Moodeaudio....the 3 Drives, NAS, Playlists and SD card.
Now....all 3 drives are protected (message is USE ANOTHER DISK/REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION as bfore).....but the SD card (partition that has Stereo Test file)...CAN be written to.
At this point....neither Moode nor smb are found in the registry.
Not sure where this gets me tho'.......
A test I did earlier doing the same thing suggested to me that changing the SMB server hostname isn't sufficient, from which I inferred Windows is logging the IP address (or, god forbid, the MAC address) as well as the hostname when it establishes a connection. But that's pure tea-leaf reading on my part.
It still sounds like moOde itself is doing what it's intended to.
How are the partitions on those three USB drives formatted? vfat/FAT32 is highly recommended. Supposedly, Linux support of the proprietary NTFS has become solid over the last decade but....
As a test, you could substitute a USB thumbdrive with some music in a FAT32 partition and see if that's accessible and writable as an SMB share.
[old guy maundering]
Up until this episode, my attitude toward Microsoft Windows was one of studied indifference; I use it only when I must and that is happening more rarely every year. I keep it around mostly for testing purposes. Now, however, I'm developing an active dislike for it.
Mind you, I used (more to the point, helped our secretarial staff use) every version of Windows at work since 1.0 hit our lab in 1985 until I retired so it's not like I have no experience with it. I personally switched to Linux on my PCs soon after Linus first distributed it to the world. After all, I was already running Unix on all the engineering workstations in my lab.
[/old guy maundering]
Regards,
Kent
