Mac Macintosh
Posted on Sunday, February 26th, 2006 at 3:19 amMac Macintosh
Connecting a Windows Vista PC to a Macintosh Mac OS X Server.?
Help please! Hybrid network (Windows + Macintosh).
I am trying to open a folder in a Mac OS X Server computer from a Windows Vista PC and the Mac Server refuses the user all the tiime.
It used to work when the PC had Windows XP installed, but since we change the Operating System to Windows Vista stopped working.
The windows vista PC sees the Mac Server (we are able to ping it successfully), but the Mac Server does not like the way Windows Vista is trying to get access to it.
Anyone with the same problem? Any ideas?
Thank you!
To enable Windows Vista to connect to Mac OS X 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 Steve Winograd, do:
1. Run the registry editor and open this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
1. If it doesn’t already exist, create a DWORD value named
LmCompatibilityLevel
3. Set the value to 1
4. Reboot
More info on this here:- http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/53712-connecting-osx-macs.html
