VISTA - Connecting to another computer on home network

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.

Nick wrote:
> 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\Contro l\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

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.

"Nick" wrote:

> 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.

Great hint -- thanks I had the same problem -- Karl
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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:OCWMZpvTHHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Nick wrote:
>> 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\Contro l\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

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


--
Barry Schnur

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.

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!


"BSchnur" wrote:

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