Hi All:

I'm a computer novice, so I may be missing something entirely obvious.
Here's my dilemma:

just purchased a PC laptop equipped with Vista
the rest of our office is Mac Based
our server is a Mac

I'm trying to get this laptop hooked on to our local network/server

any advice?

Thanks so much in advance,
Dan

Pemakarpo wrote:
Hi All:

I'm a computer novice, so I may be missing something entirely obvious.
Here's my dilemma:

just purchased a PC laptop equipped with Vista
the rest of our office is Mac Based
our server is a Mac

I'm trying to get this laptop hooked on to our local network/server

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:

StartRunsecpol.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 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

A good site for information about Windows-OS X interoperability is
http://www.macwindows.com/ .

Malke
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