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This post applies to people who use a network attached storage device (like a media player or external network hard drive) and connect to it using the driver from Ximeta NDAS.

I recently found the problem of not being able to transfer files to it as the connection between my computers (both vista and XP) found the connection unstable and kept getting pop ups saying that the connection was lost and then recovered.

The solution to the problem is simple. The drive up to version 3.43 from the ximeta website works fine. Anything after this version is massively unstable (tried up to 3.70 and wasted my time).

Not sure what Ximeta have done to their ndas software but they are surely damaging their already poor online reputation.

Driver 3.43 works fine for me for any file sizes on both vista and XP.

as always try at your own risk!

update from a reader of this blog

I noticed that Ximeta now has version 3.71 NDAS drivers, it took them about a week after 3.70 was released to figure out they have a problem.
I foolishly upgraded all my PCs to 3.7, all except my wife's, which won't run the new version because it thinks it needs to reboot after removing the previous version. 4 reboots later and it's still complaining.

I took your suggestion and installed 3.43, at least now she has read access,