thank you for your advice,
sorry i forgot to mention that i'm running os x 10.4 tiger, which has the
SMB Protocol. i have enabled that, but i'm just not sure about the same
account thing, as when i go through to type the ip address in the address bar
to access my mac in windows it asks for a computer name / password and when i
place the computer name of my mac in and the password i assinged it dose not
work, maybe i have not se the passswords between the machines or workgroup
names up correctly.
any help would be very helpful
thanks
"Malke" wrote:
Quote:
> wellygurl wrote:
> Quote:
> > i have just recently brought a new computer running windows vista. i
> > would
> > like to be able to file share and run a shared printer from my vista
> > computer to my mac and visa versa for file sharing from mac to vista. i
> > have turned on the file sharing options in windows but i still cant get
> > any communication happening. i have a feeling it might be something to do
> > with the workgroup name or possibly the sub net mask not too sure?
> > are you able to help me?
>
> See this link for general Vista sharing. Includes details about sharing
> printers as well as files and folders:
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
>
> This assumes that you have correctly set up Windows 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:
>
> Start>Run>secpol.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\Control\Lsa
>
> 1. If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value named
> LmCompatibilityLevel
>
> 3. Set the value to 1
>
> 4. Reboot
>
> Malke
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