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Trying to access Mac server using Windows Vista. I know that the server admin is setup correctly. I have no trouble accessing with Windows XP, but none of my Vista machines will work. I continually get invalid user or password. And I'd like to know why when I type in the user name it shows the name of the computer name/user name, i.e. COMPUTER/username. Does that have a bearing on the invalid user name? Can it be a NTLMv2 issue?
2010-08-27 18:09:00
I found this information on a forum.//Quote//- Click Start- Click Control Panel- Click System and Maintenance- Click Administrative Tools- Double-Click Local Security Policy- In the left pane, click the triangle next to Local Policy- In the left pane, click Security Options- In the right pane near the bottom, double-click "Network security: LANmanager authentication level"- Click the drop-down box, and click "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 sessionsecurity if negotiated"- Click OK- Restart the computer//End Quote//To give credit, this was posted on the vistax64 forums by the user Jimmy Brush.However, this isn't available in Home Premium. So a registry edit is needed. User Malke on the same forum posted this in a different thread://Quote//1. Run the registry editor and open this key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLsa1. If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value namedLmCompatibilityLevel3. Set the value to 14. Reboot//End Quote//Both seemed to have positive results.