TT,
Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately they did not work. Do you by
chance have any other ideas? I think its a a problem with NEtBIOS over
TCP/IP. Why, even though I have it enabled, does it come out as disabled in
the ipconfig /all?
Thanks again.
"TT" wrote:
Quote:
> Dear Sid,
>
> I've already posted this under a thread called 'authentification mystery',
> but as it was originated some weeks ago it's a bit hard to find. Thus this is
> a complete cite of that enty and I hope it might help.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Uuups -- after several weeks I finally found two small registry patches that
> solved the problem thanks to the hints on PChuck's Network:
>
> (a) (That's possible the most important one when using fixed IPs) Got to
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Lsa \
>
> There you either find or have to create "LMCompatibilityLevel" as REG_DWORD.
>
> Enter 1 as value on all computers in your network. That instructs your
> computer to use NTLMv2, where possible, but to also accept older auth methods.
>
>
> (b) (Important if you use a DHCP server to assign the IP addresses of your
> workstations) Got to:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Tcpip \
> Parameters \ Interfaces \ {GUID}
>
> (where {GUID} means your active network card, just bwrowse through your few
> entries till you got it)
>
> There you either find or have to create "DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag" as
> REG_DWORD
>
> Enter a value of 0 -- this way Vista does not use DHCP broadcast if your
> router doesn't support it.
>
>
> After a restart I could connect to my XP Pro SP3 workstations again.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Therese
>
>