Vista - Connecting to OSX Macs

How exactly is this registry editor done? Not sure where its at.

I'd be ever so grateful if you can help!

David

Edit:

I fould a great video tutorial here:- Workgroup Password

All sorted now

i still cant make my mac see my vista, any help please

Wow, you really provided lots of information (not). Since I have no idea
what you've tried, here is the standard answer below. This assumes that
you have Windows sharing properly set up on your Mac. Oh, and yes I use
OS X and have no problem sharing files between my MacBook and the Vista
machine.

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

i did that but it say that i cant movie it

Read this:
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/03/07/...vista-to-os-x/

could you please tell me how to get to the registry editor?

OK, I've tred this, and the other suggestions on this page. I've gotten part of the way...

Let me explain my situation. The office has MacOS9, MacOSX (10.4), Win2k, WinXP and now one Vista machine,all sharing a common Ethernet. A MacMini is set up as a backup disc, with a number of folders for other people to backup files to. It also runs FileMaker Server 5.5 (which works perfectly on TCP/IP over Ethernet, including on Vista).

All machines except the Vista machine work as they are supposed to. They can access various folders on the MacMini depending on how their permissions are set in the MacMini. Vista (after tweaking LAN Manager as described here) can now get into the Mac, but ONLY into folders set to allow access to Everyone. All the other machines can access specific folders depending on how access permissions are set, and other machines are defined in specific groups accordingly. Sales can only access one group of folders, Management can access everything, etc.

Obviously I want to lock all the folders on the MacMini so that they can only be accessed by clients with the right user name/password, but I can't get Vista to do that.

Since I can see the MacMini folders and access the ones that are fully open, I cheerfully admit that the problem seems to be in the MacMini settings, but unfortunately I still can't resolve it...

If anyone has any suggestions of something to try I would appreciate it.

Edward Lipsett
Fukuoka, Japan