Comments on: Connecting to Mac File Sharing via Vista

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:30:28 +0000

I tried looking it up in /etc/smb.conf by terminal and did not see it. Any other suggestions?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:18:11 +0000

Thanks a bunch your a star

By: possum

possum — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:53:08 +0000

did exactly that but i have an external hardrive formatted mac. Cannot even detect the device :s

By: JP

JP — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:23:51 +0000

That is a TRULY USEFUL tip. Thank you SO MUCH.

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:37:37 +0000

Well I did what you said with my new vista laptop and nothing changed. We have an imac in the house with leopard on it. I can view the mac and the printers on it but I am unable to see the public folder even after doing what you said. I can't login to see more either. Please Help! The mac can see me just fine by the way.

Thanks a Lot,

Mike

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:43:17 +0000

You can also change this setting using the “Local Security Policy” GUI app, it’s located in “Administrative Tools” under the start button.

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”

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:08:30 +0000

Brilliant stuff, this worked perfectly!!! Been pulling my hair out all day Cheers!!!

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

By: Tovarasu'

Tovarasu' — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:41:18 +0000

Hi!

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.

By: Risa

Risa — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:24:05 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. I was cursing Vista trying to figure out why they heck it could access my Mac. After getting an XP machine to access the mac I knew it was vista. You provided the perfect answer and saved me lots of effort. Thank you!

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:40:33 +0000

OK, Leopards up and running. It can see all the shares on my Vista Ultimate boxes. It can read, write, boil in oil any of the Vista files. However, my Vista boxes went all snooty on me however and refused to recognize that the Mac exists. Entering the name or the IP address just returned an error. That was last night… And then - 12 hours later - NO changes, not even a reboot (honest) - the PowerBook suddenly appears in my Network folders. WTF? Time heals all things??

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:39:42 +0000

Absolute pure gold. Thanks for end an hour or so of frustration

By: david

david — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:51:09 +0000

thankyou and thankyou and thankyou!

my uni requires me to use windows and moving rooms and plugging in printers was driving me insane

at last, after almost a year of making do

a great post!

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:54:20 +0000

Thanks, it worked! Tested with 10.3.9 and Vista Enterprise.

By: caveman

caveman — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:06:42 +0000

one trick I found that had to happen on my machine to go in reverse was to enable windows file sharing not only in the networking center window, but also in the network adapter properties (like in win XP), I am using my wireless network to do this, not the wired card it must have defaulted to. Then looking for the vista box from the mac via smb worked fine. (though it still doesn’t come up in the mac’s network destinations window)

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:44:41 +0000

Wow, tried everything and then this, all working again….Thank you

By: Darrique

Darrique — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:45:03 +0000

George: For the “How to go in reverse?” Can you elaborate? I don’t see any regkey NO folder or file, etc. called smb.conf or etc. I’m not sure if you’re referring to a file or to a key or what?

Thanks!

By: mobtek

mobtek — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:11:21 +0000

Thanks for this, I thought I was going insane

By: lucas

lucas — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:05:39 +0000

I did what you said but it still says the username and password are wrong. I tried logging on with just my name and pass, plus with my IP adusername and pass and still it’s no go. Anyone have any good advice?

By: George Bush

George Bush — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:13:06 +0000

"Now, how to go in reverse?"

Edit /etc/smb.conf and make sure this line is present:

It probably says: client ntlmv2 auth = no

Change it to "yes"

By: mk

mk — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:58:47 +0000

Rich- that i swhat I find as well. If you solve it please post