Mixed Network: XP+Vista+MacOSX

> |Sole| wrote:

> Malke

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>> |Sole| wrote:

>

>> Malke

>
> Thanks Malke, now I can access MacOSX from Vista PC and vice-versa and I
> can tranfer big files. The speed reported still isn't very appealing
> (500-900 KB/s), but it's better than nothing
>
> Thanks again for your help.

> |Sole| wrote:

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>>> |Sole| wrote:

>>

>>> Malke

>>
>> Thanks Malke, now I can access MacOSX from Vista PC and vice-versa and I
>> can tranfer big files. The speed reported still isn't very appealing
>> (500-900 KB/s), but it's better than nothing
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.

>
> You're most welcome. I haven't noticed a speed issue between my Vista box
> and the MacBook. Maybe you need updated drivers for your Vista NIC? Or
> maybe the switch is old? Or not. ;-) There have been quite a few posts
> about slow file transfers over LANs but no definitive answers that I can
> see yet.

> Hi everyone,
> unlike many others in here I could easily share folders between my PC with
> a fresh Vista Home Premium setup and my laptop with Windows XP SP2. Some
> days ago I received a new MacPro and I started to have problems in network
> sharing. After lots of trials and errors I decided to ask for some help.
> Hope some of you can lend an hand even if the problem is cross-platform.
>
> My network setup is the following:
>
> - First PC is connected to a 3Com switch
> - MacPro is connected to the same switch
> - Switch is connected to a Linksys wireless router
> - Laptop is connected to the network via wireless
> - I have an Xbox 360 connected, too, hooked up to the Linksys router
>
> DHCP (on the Linksys) gives every machine an IP, so the network seems to
> be properly configured. Vista and XP can talk to each other (I couldn't
> share a full hard drive in Vista as I was used in XP Professional, that's
> not a big issue but any hint on this matter is more than welcome),
> Xbox360's Media Center Extender can reach my multimedia files and
> everything seems fine.
>
> Problem is I can't access MacOSX's sharing from Vista, and I can't copy
> big files accessing to Vista's shared folders from the Mac.
> If I access to the shared folders from the Mac, I can mount them and see
> the files inside, but I can transfer only little files, pictures and stuff
> like that. If I try to copy bigger files, like 5-600 MBytes, MacOS
> "thinks" for a while, then it starts the transfer at ridicolous speed
> (several minutes to obtain a single MB) and then gives up returning an
> error.
>
> On the other side, Vista can find the MacPro in the network window and if
> I double-clic on the icon it asks for a login name and password. Fine, but
> when I enter the username and password of the MacOSX user, Vista says that
> it's impossible to establish a connection and asks for correct username
> and password.
>
> Laptop, however, seems to like all the other computers: as I said I can
> access to the shared folders of the Vista PC, but in this case, when I try
> double-clicking on the MacPro's icon, I insert the very same username and
> password that Vista refused and I can access the shared folders on the
> MacPro without any problem.
>
> At present, I'm forced to use the laptop as a "parking lot" when I have to
> transfer files from the main PC to the MacPro, but I'd like to solve the
> problem since this is something I'm going to do very often.
> I tried to disable Vista's built-in firewall without luck, I tried to give
> any possible permission in the Vista's sharing properties, but couldn't
> solve the problem. I even made the same user accounts on both machines,
> with matching usernames and passwords, but again, Vista refuses to login
> to the MacPro and MacPro can't transfer big files. Sharing services seem
> to be fine, as XP Laptop can access and transfer to both computers. I
> don't have any third-party firewall-antivirus-blockers installed on the
> Vista PC.
>
> Onestly, I don't know what to try next
>
> Any help would be more than welcome.
>
> Thanks for your time.

> As Malke posted, you can work around the issue by setting Vista to a lower
> security level. You can also upgrade Samba on your MacPro to version
> 3.0.22 or later and add "client ntlmv2 auth = yes" to your smb.conf --
> this may also help your performance.

> |Sole| wrote:

> > Hi everyone,
> > unlike many others in here I could easily share folders between my PC
> > with a fresh Vista Home Premium setup and my laptop with Windows XP SP2.
> > Some days ago I received a new MacPro and I started to have problems in
> > network sharing. After lots of trials and errors I decided to ask for
> > some help. Hope some of you can lend an hand even if the problem is
> > cross-platform.

>
> (snippage)
>
> In order to share files with 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\Contro l\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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