Too much info with Ultimate - Mapping a Network Drive

[Hardedge]

Forgive me for being ignorant but I have a drive attached to my router, 7 XP
Pro systems and 2 Vista Ultimate systems. One of the latter, which I bought,
not built, refuses to connect to the networked drive. It sends:

<system name>/<user id>
<password>

and the drive refuses the user id because of the extra info. I can't modify
it in the dialog box and it just keeps repeating. I don't know what's
different between the two Vista boxes but I'd really like the purchased
system to stop being so stubborn. Thanks.

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

This may seem strange, but you need to change your NTLM settings on
your Vista boxen:

http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746

 

[Hardedge]

I'm sorry, Jeffrey, but what's "Samba" and how does it relate?

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Samba is (probably) the software running on your router. Vista has a
known issue with authentication to Samba-based devices. The link has
instructions on what you need to change on your Vista machine to
access the disk.

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Jeffrey Randow
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Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
http://www.networkblog.net