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We are running a few vista machines internally at work, a month or so ago, they started to drop off the network randomly so the users reported. Later I found that it was only their connections to the network shares dropping. Exchange, Internet Access everything else was unaffected. I was baffled as to what it could be. We were using DFS to map the network drives. I found that I could go to \\servername\share but not the \\namespace\data\share path

Anyway I was googleing for answers as any resourceful tech does.

I came across this Microsoft KB Article 933860.

DFS failover does not occur when a client computer that is running Windows Vista tries to connect to a DFS root server that is unavailable, and you receive an error message: “System error 1214 has occurred”

Now these were not the exact symptom’s I was experiencing, but sounded similar. Anyway I contacted MS for the hotfix’s for Vista x86 and x64, and the issue is now resolved.

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Quick helpful tip..

 this is the command to clear your arp cache

netsh interface ip delete arpcache

 Make:Maxton Model : USB3-8521

download the Telstra Turbo Modem Manager from the Maxton Site

Telstra Turbo Modem Manager

Extract and Install it.

Follow this document below for setting up the dialup connection.

Telstra Turbo on Vista

That’s all you should need.

If you download Abode Acrobat Reader 8 and try to install it on your Vista machine it could be that you’ll encounter the following message:

If you do… following is the work around that I’ve found to the problem:

1. Start the installation as usual, do no dismiss the error message box.

2. Open explorer and copy the “Adobe Reader 8″ directory from the following path to your root dir
“C:\Users\{username}\AppData\LocalLow\Netopsystems\temp\”

3. run the setup.exe from the “Adobe Reader 8″ directory on your root dir.