Thanks! I was not looking forward to even owning Vista, but I really need to test my websites in various environments.

However, connections to the Vista machine/workgroup was spotty at best. After looking through this list, two comments stood out: DON’T use dashes in your Vista PC name! My pc was named Mediacenter-PC. I changed it to MediacenterPC. AND Use the Administrative tools -> Local Security Policies -> Local Policies,

Then scroll down the list until you get to Microsoft Network Server: entries. and change these: Amount of idle time required before suspending session: 99999 Disconnect clients when logon hours expire: Disabled

Network Security entries. There are a couple things there that have changed in Vista: Force Logoff when logon hours expire: Set this to Disabled LAN Manager Authentication Level: Set this to Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated

I did these, rebooted, and attempted to access my vista machine from my mac. I used finder then command-K The entry is SMB://vistamachinename

It popped right up and asked me for the user/password for the vista machine. Even if you don’t have your drives shared, you can add /C$ or /D$ in the SMB line to get directly to your drives.

Hope this helps – Saved my bacon…

In an additional twist, while using vista 64 connecting to 10.4.11, I found that I had to change the vista computer name to not contain a hyphen. So, computer name was eric-PC, and the policy NTLMv2 fix made no difference. I changed the name to ericpc (NTLMv2 change applied), and it started working.

For what it’s worth…

If not, and you own a intel Mac, you can install boot camp and windows to play the game.

I was using Vista Ult64 and trying to connect to my 10.4 Mac. (“Why upgrade?” )

You do indeed have to do exactly this:

“Click Windows Visa Start Orb In search box, type “regedit” and return Once regedit opens, click File -> export to make a backup copy Navigate to Computer HKEYLOCALMACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Lsa. In the right pane, right-click the “LmCompatibilityLevel” key and select “modify” Change the value from 3 to 1 Exit regedit and you should now be able to properly authenticate to your Mac OS X (or other Samba) share.”

thank you SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a Lot,

Mike

Click on “Local Policies” and “Security Options” Find the “Network security: LAN Manager authentication level” item and change its popup value to “Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”

Although if anyone can give me the settings for Norton 360 as that blocks everything that the network wants to do…..i can only network with this disabled.

Kind regards

very good indeed, your post, works perfectly.

But i still don’t know what to do to my mac to see vista…. george bush was to fast for me. please reply if find a solution, I’ll do the same.