Problems connecting to Mac Servers
I just started a job where the PCs connect to some Mac computers that they have set up. I'm trying to connect to this one called XServe (with no password).Vista finds the Network just fine, so when I connect to it, I type in XServe for the username and leave the password blank. When I try to enter, it says the username/password don't match and then defaults the username to WebMaster\XServe. 'WebMaster' is the name of my Vista machine.I can connect fine on an XP machine here, but Vista is giving me problems for some reason.If anyone has run in to this, or knows a solution, many thanks are due in advance.
March 29th, 2007 6:43pm

Try this... Admin Tools >> Local Security Policy >> Local Policies >> Security Options...find the Policy Key named Network Security : LAN Manager Authentication Level....set the value to Send LM and NTLM responces. I was trying to get Vista Business to attach to a Mac 10.3 server. Same issue. The machine name was appearing and no matter what I tried it wouldn't connect. This cleared it up. Can't take credit for this answer though. I got this from Chucky Cheese in an earlier post. -JN
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March 29th, 2007 11:45pm

Thanks to responding. That seems to be the solution, but I don't have "Local Security Policy" under Administrative Tools.I'm running Vista Home Basic. That might have something to do with it.Any other thoughts?
March 30th, 2007 12:27am

Go to Regedit and change the LMCompatibilityLevel to 0 I think is the one you want.You can find this under HKeyLocalMachine>System>CurrentControlSet>Control>LsaI can't remember off the top of my head what the number should be but that might be it. I'm installing Ubuntu on my desktop which has Vista Ultimate on it so I can't check that for you right now! That's where you would change it in Home Premium.Otherwise if you are on an AD domain change it in your Group Policy setting, unless it's set to Not defined.
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March 30th, 2007 5:06am

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