Recent content by Stilby

p.s. I'm OK with removing grub from the MBR using dd from within opensolaris. I just need access to my bcd file. It doesn't have to be a GUI. I'm OK with bcdedit. I just can't find the right syntax given that win7 can't see it without me telling it where to look. p.p.s The smiley in my last...

Thank you for alll the replies abd sorry I didn't have time to give more info in my original post. I tried easyBCD but it also can't find my BCD file and the built in trouble shooter failed to find or fix the problem. I have joined Neowin but I'm waiting for my confirmation email. I installed...

I can display my BCD with: bcdedit /enum /store c:\boot\bcd But then how do I edit that file, or better still, how do I get bcdedit.exe to find it without specifying the location?

Thank you for all your suggestions It won't let me change any of those settings but thanks for making me aware of those settings. One possibility is to sit down with both RC and Ent side by side and go through all the settings in gpedit. That could take a few hours and isn't garanteed to find...

Still can't write to Samba but fixed another problem! Yes I did, as it is also required to access OS X shares. Bare in mind that my situation is that I can access both shares //zion/shares (ro) and //zion/swap (rw) but I can't write to swap, I can only read, even though it works for all my...

Not a solution but a way forward! ____________ This reminded me of some notes I made on setting up 2008 Server as a desktop and getting 7 to connect to OS X shares. Only they used the group policies editor gpedit.msc I guess that cascades down to local policies. It didn't help with my Samba...

Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day (64bit) A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that...