Vista, an Xfi and S/P

Purchased the Sound Blaster digital I\O module the other day and I've been trying to get a digital line from my X-Fi X music to my AV receiver working but am not having any luck. Vista appears to see the digital I\O module as I can select SPDIF as a default output in the hardware options but not a sound can be heard when I connect the digital coax line from the I\O module to the RX. Yes I had the RX set to get it's signal from that particular coax input. No selectable option appears to exists in the Creative console that would allow me to turn digital I\O on or off. I can connect my X-Fi to the RX via an RCA input and get sound but I'd rather use a digital coax line in as this frees up that particular RCA input for another component and routing a single coax line through my wire hiding pipes will be lots easier too.
PS: I'm using the latest 32 bit Vista drivers from this site...
Steve.

maybe this is the same "DD-DTS through spdif" issue that you can solve using this trick? :?http://forums.creative.com/creativel...e.id=378&page=?(not possible with last driver 2_5_002 anymore, use pre-march 2007 driver)?in that case the problem is?the soundcard under vista, not the module...

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Rob

Hi,
I made a test in our testing enviroment, everything works fine to disable SMB2 and 3. For your problem, in my opinion, as I didn't find any specific report about this error, it would be better to use Process Monitor to capture the trace when running the
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Many thanks for the time taken to look into this.
I've downloaded process monitor and loaded it. I filtered for cmd.exe started capture and saved a 1mb file.
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file windows is loosing the connection to that file so the user cannot write to it even if they have the file open. The smb2 caching shouldn't cause that problem.
It appears that I have to disable from SMB2 and SMB3 and ensure that the clients only use SMB1.
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The problem with the "Circular reference" error message is standard across all versions of windows that have "smb2" or "smb2 and smb3". Can you recreate that problem? Or is it working on your windows computer and on the machines
downloaded from modern.ie ?
My testing has shown that the command "sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi" does not work. Therefore that's the one I want to resolve first. By resolving that I may be able to get the clients accessing the share to behave
themselves and use the shared files correctly as they always did from Windows 95/NT4 through to Windows XP and 2003/2008 server.
I'm unable to recreate the problem with multiple users having access to shared database files on windows 2012 server from Windows 7 clients were the access to the files drops once a day or once every couple of days.
Kindest Regards
Robert

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