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abooganza
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Hi,
Does anybody know if Cubase SX will run on Win 98 SE??
thanks - diz
Does anybody know if Cubase SX will run on Win 98 SE??
thanks - diz
skippy
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No. You need either XP or W2K. And, having just gone through all that- and now, having to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro to get the networking to operate properly- I can strongly recommend that you choose W2K instead.
Cubase SX runs _great_ on XP, once you get the install done (which was a huge thrash for me, as a non-Windows-guru type). But I need the networking stuff to interoperate with Samba so that I can back up my audio data to my unix servers, and the networking on XP Home is completely lobotomized. So I end up paying $400 for XP pro...
The various gurus here say that this install is easy. I found it to be anything but easy... So your mileage may vary.
If you don't use networking for anything, then XP Home will work perfectly well. But if you do need to shove bits up the pipe from time to time, you'll need to go with W2K or XP Pro.
Cubase SX runs _great_ on XP, once you get the install done (which was a huge thrash for me, as a non-Windows-guru type). But I need the networking stuff to interoperate with Samba so that I can back up my audio data to my unix servers, and the networking on XP Home is completely lobotomized. So I end up paying $400 for XP pro...
The various gurus here say that this install is easy. I found it to be anything but easy... So your mileage may vary.
If you don't use networking for anything, then XP Home will work perfectly well. But if you do need to shove bits up the pipe from time to time, you'll need to go with W2K or XP Pro.
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abooganza
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Thanks for ya help mate,much appreciated - diz
skippy
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I just finished updating from XP Home to XP Pro.
Unlike my XP Home bare-partition installation, I only had to do it twice, which only consumed 4 hours and was EVER SO convenient. And, unfortunately, the install preserved _some_ of my drivers and settings- but not all, of course. For my convenience.
After the upgrade, both Cubase 5.1 and Cubase SX somehow actually worked, sort of- which is to say that it didn't delete any of my files, for my convenience. But the Hammerfall drivers, and the Steinberg Midex-8 driver, had to be redone from scratch. After all, they aren't "Win XP signed", so the upgrade installer simply *left them out*. For my convenience. Oh, and it conveniently remapped all my midi channels, which led to me having to redoe each tune in sequence. But that was very convenient, so why would I be annoyed by it?
And there was the minor annoyance of having to copy the install CD to my D: drive once again, rather than being able to run the installer from the CD-ROM (running it from the drive gave me multiple BSODs, of course). But I expected that, because Microsoft apparently doesn't support my Yamaha 8824s drive, or my Adaptec SCSI controller, or whatever- for my convenience, of course.
And it also deleted all my network settings, and reset my system preferences, for my convenience. Oh, and it turned on automatic online updates again, even though I'd turned them off before. For my convenience.
And now that it is all said and done, it _still_ will not support backing up my C: drive via smbtar to my Unix Samba servers. It gives me permission errors, even if I run smbtar *with the root user and password*. For my convenience, of course.
So, Windows gurus: here's what _I_ want. A way to run XP Pro so that smbtar (a non-Microsoft, third-party client) can back up the C: drive, *given the root username and password*. Any takers? Coming up with an answer will probably be damned inconvenient for you, I fear. And yes, I've done the Google thing, and the Microsoft knowledgebase thing, and all that. I want this Windows box to fit into _my_ non-Microsoft network, and not vice versa! This is one of two Microsoft boxes in my company: it is outnumbered by Solaris/Unix, 8 to 1. No, I am _not_ going to go to NT.
I've been a Unix guy since before Unix (I cut my teeth on Multics in the early 70s). I still think I could eat a handful of sand and _puke_ a better operating system than anything I've seen so far from monopolyville.
In 20 words or less: how do I make Win XP Pro act like Win98SE (which worked just fine, of course), with respect to Unix Samba servers and smbtar?
That was a rhetorical question. I don't expect it to ever work. I just installed Perl on the XP box, and I'll write some software that will make the C: drive available for backup to a non-Microsoft-supplied world. But folks, unless you live, eat, sleep, and drink Microsoft: XP is *not your friend*. Period, end of statement.
Unlike my XP Home bare-partition installation, I only had to do it twice, which only consumed 4 hours and was EVER SO convenient. And, unfortunately, the install preserved _some_ of my drivers and settings- but not all, of course. For my convenience.
After the upgrade, both Cubase 5.1 and Cubase SX somehow actually worked, sort of- which is to say that it didn't delete any of my files, for my convenience. But the Hammerfall drivers, and the Steinberg Midex-8 driver, had to be redone from scratch. After all, they aren't "Win XP signed", so the upgrade installer simply *left them out*. For my convenience. Oh, and it conveniently remapped all my midi channels, which led to me having to redoe each tune in sequence. But that was very convenient, so why would I be annoyed by it?
And there was the minor annoyance of having to copy the install CD to my D: drive once again, rather than being able to run the installer from the CD-ROM (running it from the drive gave me multiple BSODs, of course). But I expected that, because Microsoft apparently doesn't support my Yamaha 8824s drive, or my Adaptec SCSI controller, or whatever- for my convenience, of course.
And it also deleted all my network settings, and reset my system preferences, for my convenience. Oh, and it turned on automatic online updates again, even though I'd turned them off before. For my convenience.
And now that it is all said and done, it _still_ will not support backing up my C: drive via smbtar to my Unix Samba servers. It gives me permission errors, even if I run smbtar *with the root user and password*. For my convenience, of course.
So, Windows gurus: here's what _I_ want. A way to run XP Pro so that smbtar (a non-Microsoft, third-party client) can back up the C: drive, *given the root username and password*. Any takers? Coming up with an answer will probably be damned inconvenient for you, I fear. And yes, I've done the Google thing, and the Microsoft knowledgebase thing, and all that. I want this Windows box to fit into _my_ non-Microsoft network, and not vice versa! This is one of two Microsoft boxes in my company: it is outnumbered by Solaris/Unix, 8 to 1. No, I am _not_ going to go to NT.
I've been a Unix guy since before Unix (I cut my teeth on Multics in the early 70s). I still think I could eat a handful of sand and _puke_ a better operating system than anything I've seen so far from monopolyville.
In 20 words or less: how do I make Win XP Pro act like Win98SE (which worked just fine, of course), with respect to Unix Samba servers and smbtar?
That was a rhetorical question. I don't expect it to ever work. I just installed Perl on the XP box, and I'll write some software that will make the C: drive available for backup to a non-Microsoft-supplied world. But folks, unless you live, eat, sleep, and drink Microsoft: XP is *not your friend*. Period, end of statement.
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man@work
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Hi skippy,
Maybe worth posting your problem on the samba
news group?
I have a business associate who is trying to run smbclient
for the 1st time on XP. He's getting errors opening files...
thinks there's problems with security settings re permission
on these files. He'll keep me informed.
Good luck!!
Mike
Maybe worth posting your problem on the samba
news group?
I have a business associate who is trying to run smbclient
for the 1st time on XP. He's getting errors opening files...
thinks there's problems with security settings re permission
on these files. He'll keep me informed.
Good luck!!
Mike