VISTA - Connecting to another computer on home network

[Guest]

I recently installed VISTA (by Staples Easy Tech).

My network includes 1 VISTA machine and 3 OS X machines.

In Computer, I see the icons for the OS X machines. When I try to connect to
any of them, the user/pass authentication box appears, I type the username
and password, and Vista always reports that the connection was unsuccessful.

I then notice in one the "username" line that Vista has changed my
"username" from what I typed, to: "VistaMachinename\username" .

I don't get the need to alter my typing...

I do need to get back to work and be able to share files between my Mac and
Windows machines, like I was able to under 2000 and XP.

 

[Malke]

I recently installed VISTA (by Staples Easy Tech).

My network includes 1 VISTA machine and 3 OS X machines.

In Computer, I see the icons for the OS X machines. When I try to connect to
any of them, the user/pass authentication box appears, I type the username
and password, and Vista always reports that the connection was unsuccessful.

I then notice in one the "username" line that Vista has changed my
"username" from what I typed, to: "VistaMachinename\username" .

I don't get the need to alter my typing...

I do need to get back to work and be able to share files between my Mac and
Windows machines, like I was able to under 2000 and XP.

You need to make these changes to work with Samba (used by OS X):

To enable Windows Vista to connect to Mac OS X (or any *nix) with
Windows File Sharing enabled, you will need to change the following
policy in Windows Vista:

Start>Run>secpol.msc [enter]

Click on "Local Policies" --> "Security Options"

Navigate to the policy "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication
level" and double-click it to get its Properties. By default Windows
Vista sets the policy to "NTVLM2 responses only". Use the drop-down
arrow to change this to "LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if
negotiated".

In Vista Home Premium, you won't have this tool so per MVP Steve
Winograd, do:

1. Run the registry editor and open this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

1. If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value named
LmCompatibilityLevel

3. Set the value to 1

4. Reboot

Malke

 

[Guest]

Your FIX did work! Thank You.

I have VISTA Home Premium, no Start>Run box, but typing "run" in the Search
box did bring up the traditional Run box, and while Registry Edit(or) did not
yield any results... I did remember 10-15 yrs ago someone using the term
"regedit" which did work.

Being a Final Cut Pro video editor, I don't have a lot of time nor interest
to fiddle around with such core fixes on Windows.

If Microsoft/Windows wants to get in the space age, it might consider the
elementray principle of networking: we small business people spend money on
computers to use them to work.

Networking should be "on" and working, out of the box.

Again, Thank You for the fix, it worked.

 

[Karl H Geng]

Great hint -- thanks I had the same problem -- Karl
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I recently installed VISTA (by Staples Easy Tech).

My network includes 1 VISTA machine and 3 OS X machines.

In Computer, I see the icons for the OS X machines. When I try to connect
to any of them, the user/pass authentication box appears, I type the
username and password, and Vista always reports that the connection was
unsuccessful. I then notice in one the "username" line that Vista has
changed my "username" from what I typed, to: "VistaMachinename\username"
. I don't get the need to alter my typing...

I do need to get back to work and be able to share files between my Mac
and Windows machines, like I was able to under 2000 and XP.

You need to make these changes to work with Samba (used by OS X):

To enable Windows Vista to connect to Mac OS X (or any *nix) with Windows
File Sharing enabled, you will need to change the following policy in
Windows Vista:

Start>Run>secpol.msc [enter]

Click on "Local Policies" --> "Security Options"

Navigate to the policy "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication
level" and double-click it to get its Properties. By default Windows Vista
sets the policy to "NTVLM2 responses only". Use the drop-down arrow to
change this to "LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated".

In Vista Home Premium, you won't have this tool so per MVP Steve Winograd,
do:

1. Run the registry editor and open this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

1. If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value named
LmCompatibilityLevel

3. Set the value to 1

4. Reboot

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[BSchnur]

By the way, with the Business/Enterprise/Ultimate versions you can get
to this via menus -- Control Panel - Administration and from there.

 

[Guest]

By The Way -

After applying the fix, i was able to connect to the OS X machines from
Vista, but not from the OS X machines to Vista.

I do have a printer on the Vista machine that I would like to share with the
OS X machines.

 

[Guest]

While the FIX worked so that I can connect from VISTA to OS X machines, I
canNOT connect from OS X to VISTA machine.

Also, I am therefore not able to see the Epson printer connected to the
Vista machine from the OS X machines. I'd like to print that way, to save on
wiring.

Is Bill monitoring these posts? I need connectivity!