I have a hard drive and a printer I would like to be able to share with my
Mac system running OS X 10.5 how can this be done?

ssgtbluhp wrote:

I have a hard drive and a printer I would like to be able to share with my
Mac system running OS X 10.5 how can this be done?

1. Set up sharing between Vista and the Mac. Have you already done this?
2. Share out the drive and the printer on Vista. You'll be best off making a
folder to share on the drive and not trying to share the entire drive.
3. Install the printer on the Mac - go to the printer mftr.'s website to get
Mac drivers.

A. Set up sharing in Vista - Excellent, thorough, yet easy to understand
article about File/Printer Sharing in Vista. Includes details about sharing
printers as well as files and folders:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx

B. Set up sharing in OS X. If you have Leopard, make sure you are using the
SMB protocol and not AFP. You must create matching user accounts/passwords
on both the Mac and Vista. You do not need to be logged into the same
account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can
be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all
machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop in Vista
(into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The
instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

You also need to make sure you've correctly configured your firewalls on
both machines to allow the Local Area Network as trusted.

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:

Vista Business/Ultimate only -
Start OrbSearch boxtype: secpol.msc
When secpol.msc appears in Results above, right-click it and "run as
administrator".

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:

Start OrbSearch boxtype: regedit
When regedit appears in the Results above, right-click it and "run as
administrator"

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa

1. If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value named
LmCompatibilityLevel
2. Set the value to 1 and reboot.

Malke
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MS-MVP
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