How do I log into an SMB share on Leopard from Vista

Question

I have File Sharing turned on with a Public folder for several different users - all of which have Read and Write access. I've tried enabling and disabling Share files and folders using SMB. I can see the share on my Vista machine. When I try to login, Vista says "Login unsuccessful". This is using my account name to login to OSX and the password. I've even tried the "short" userid you see in a terminal window.
Windows prepends MY-PC\mywholeusername the "My-PC" (which is the local Vista PC) when the failure happens. I can type Admin and then my password, but then I don't see the shares.
Why can't I login? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Your problem is vista and not the mac.
I had to do this on all my clients who use vista business.
1. Open the Run command and type "secpol.msc".
2. Press "continue" when prompted by Vista.
3. Click on "Local Policies" --> "Security Options"
4. Navigate to the policy "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it.
5. By default Windows Vista sets the policy to "NTVLM2 responses only". Change this to "LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated".
HOWEVER if you have vista home, Then you cannot do the above as secpol is not installed.
so do this
- Click start
- Type: regedit
- Press enter
- In the left, expand these folders:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
- 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