M6600 Owners Thread

Microsoft share/homegroup is pretty simple and good enough for most case. You can look into adding a USB drive to the router or nas for more centralized storage.

 

Enable password protected sharing and set the folder permissions manually. You will see your computer on the network and the shared folders, but when you'll try to open the folder, you'll be prompted to enter a username and password that have access to the shared folders on the host computer. Great if you want to limit who can access your files. It requires its fair share of work to set up though, I remember it took me quite a while to set everything on my desktop and it was almost two years ago so I completely forgot exactly what I did...

Homegroup is pretty safe though, to join the homegroup, you have to be on the network already and it is the easiest way to share files. To put it simply if someone with malicious intent is connected to your network, you got bigger problems. I doubt that's going to happen. Anyone who sees WPA2-AES will try the other easier to hack networks first.

At one point, I was using tversity to stream videos to my PS3 and Xbox 360, but that was only because I needed on the fly .mkv transcoding which Windows Media Center doesn't do. I have also used my 360 as a media center extender, it's pretty neat if you got a home cinema and a lot of media files stored on your desktop that you'd like to play on it.

Before anyone asks, I got somewhat of an addiction to tech and trying different setups. I'd like to go sky is the limit, but unfortunately, budget is.

 

Yeah, with the old router I didn't bother to try, so slow. But now I want to try but struck with the different ways to get it done.
I'm all for the public homegroup sharing thing except those files I don't want to share with everyone, for instance private files between the M6600's.
I'll look into finding some tutorial if I get stuck, but the folder permissions you mentioned is what I was thinking about so that's a good place to start implementing.

 

One thing that is nice (or not depending on how you see it) is that if your username and passwords match between computers, you don't need to enter the credentials, you can access the password protected folders directly. You can also limit user permissions to read only if you want people to be able to access the files, but not to mess with them.

 

WEP is actually not allowed in the 802.11n spec so 802.11n routers shouldn't allow you to choose it (though I think some still do).

I use Windows file sharing with explicit permissions. Generally I share the root of the drive using "Advanced sharing" and give only myself access to it. If someone needs access to something else, I create another share for the particular folder and give only them access to it. (I have a couple of shares that my wife uses.)

This means that I'm not using "public" sharing and other users on the network won't be able to access the shares without typing in my Windows username/password.



I don't use the homegroup thing at all. In fact if you have homegroup enabled you might need to turn it off for this to work, I seem to remember that it kept trying to connect to shares using the homegroup credentials when I tried using it, which means it wouldn't let me access shares that I had locked down to one account. Though I also seem to remember an option in the homegroup settings somewhere to disable this behavior.

If your machines use the same username/password then Windows will automatically connect to shares that match your login info without a prompt (if you have appropriate permissions on the "server"). Otherwise you can specify the credentials at the "map network drive" prompt.

 

+1 - this is how I share my folders between all my computers in the home LAN. Simple and effective.

 

It's kind of a good thing you and Tijo brought me up to speed about the pitfalls of WEP, and then implementing WPA2 last week - as I set about the new router without confusion.

Perfect. I'll pursue this strategy.

 

Nice to see I'm not the only one using this method, it works great and I can just drop files on the desktop for archival through the network. Getting 8-10 MB/s WLAN to WLAN is also awesome, but that's thanks to the router and wireless adapters.

 

Nvidia had updated its Quadro drivers. Now at 320.49. I have installed it a few hours ago and it seems to be working ok so far.

But this weekend I do want to run some comprehensive tests on my video card - Quadro 4000M

When I test RAM I use Mem test, but what is the equivalent of that to run some hard core checks of the video card? I am happy to leave it testing for 24 hours if need be. Thanks

 

Furmark if you want to load at 100% full time like there's no tomorrow, think of it as the prime 95 of GPUs. If you want to assess performance however: 3DMark for gaming perf and SPECViewPerf for CAD applications. There's also Luxmark 2.0 for OpenCL rendering using the mercury engine. Furmark is usually used to test temperatures and stability if you overclock and whatnot. 3DMark and SPECViewPerf should be enough to assess general stability of the GPU under various conditions. SPECViewPerf will test for Catia, EnSight, Lightwave, Maya, Pro/Engineer Solidworks, Siemens TcVis and Siemens NX.