Windows 7 Share Troubles Tip

[m00f]

For anyone out there battling this little black box to connect to a Windows 7 folder share and your seeing this error in the Windows System event log: "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.", I have a gift for you.

Reference post: http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/...srv-error-2017

Basically, in Win7, it apparently does not always get configured correctly to be a true file server. The fix is to update two registry keys:

Set the following registry key to ‘1′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

and set the following registry key to ‘3′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

After hours of battling this problem, my hd200 will now connect to my win7 shares again. I don't think this applies to any previous windows versions.

Hopefully, this is useful to someone out there. Sorry if it has already been discussed previously (was a new one to me).

Enjoy!

-moof