Saten's relationship with the rest of my LAN is peculiar. It can see Alcyone, the big ASUS notebook. But that's not massively surprising; it was Alcyone which generated the gobbledegook password that Saten used to connect to the workgroup.

Saten used to be named "STEVEN-SLATE", that being what it got automatically named. I figured out this morning how to change that.

Saten used to see Arcturus, the old WinXP Compaq notebook I use for my torrents, but right now it can't. That doesn't worry me too much.

What's worse is that Saten can't connect to Deneb, the Windows Home Server. It occurred to me last night that it was because I didn't have Connector running and I wasn't logged in.

So this morning I copied the installation files for Connector onto the 32G SDHC I've been using as a data shuttle, and I installed it on Saten.

Saten is now running a full backup. That part's fine. But Deneb only shows up in its "Network" listing in a strange place. When I click it, it tries to access Deneb using IE. (Which fails.) Getting it to open Deneb as a file server may be more difficult.

There's a shortcut on Alcyone's desktop I use to open Deneb. I think I'm going to try copying that over using the SDHC. But not until the backup is finished.

UPDATE: Man, I don't understand Windows Networking. That shortcut doesn't work. It says "Windows cannot access \\DENEB".

But Connector works, partially. I finished a backup. I configured the backup from Alcyone, during which Deneb connected Connector on Saten to get a preliminary directory listing. (So that I could choose what to exclude from the backup.)

On the other hand, I can't open the Connector console from Saten. It says it can't contact Deneb, just the same way that Explorer complains.

This isn't a problem with WIFI. Alcyone is wire-connected to Railgun and Saten is RF-connected to Railgun. Alcyone has complete access to Deneb, but Saten only works to do backups.

Wakaranai...

UPDATE: With only 64G of SSD, one thing I've been a bit worried about is that eventually "System Restore" will use all my free space.

I found this. Turns out there's a menu in Win7 to control how much space can be used. I just checked, and it's set to 3%, 1.78G. I wonder if that's something HP tuned, or if MS has incorporated an intelligent heuristic? Anyway, I can spare that much. Currently the C drive shows 14G used, 45G free.

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