Vista/Mac not sharing

[gduncan]

My wife bought a Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista this weekend and I've had a devil of a time getting it to share with my Mac Mini and vice versa.

The laptop connects with the Airport express and gets access to the internet. I'm typing this post from the laptop, in fact. The Mac and the laptop can see each other over the network, but I cannot log onto the laptop from the Mac nor can I log onto the Mac from the laptop.

I've checked the settings several times and everything seems correct, but no success. Perhaps I've overlooked some obscure setting.

Any ideas?

 

[adriankamellard]

I had the same problem. The link below takes you to the answer I used. My Vista machines now network happily with my Macs.

http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=670498

 

[adriankamellard]

I found the following solution in another discussion forum. You do the following on your Vista machine and you should then be able to log on to Macs over a network. It worked well for me:

- Click start
- Type: regedit
- Press enter
- In the left, expand these folders:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\

- In the left, click on the folder named:

Lsa

- In the right, double-click "LmCompatibilityLevel"
- Type the number 1 and press enter
- Restart your computer

 

[gduncan]

Big thanks!

I made the changes that you suggested and achieved success. I was about to pull my hair out! What little I have left, anyway.

I tried an ftp client (Filezilla) and even tried to use a Hotline server/client and nothing worked.

But this did...thanks again.