Kris and John standing on the roof at Kris’ place downtown.

So I installed an OpenBSD firewall / samba file server at an office location with all Windows Vista workstations. I have refused to use Vista till this point because of everything bad that I have heard. I do not believe that it is necessary to have a core duo machine for a simple workstation. Anyways, I was unable to map the smb shares on the Vista machines. It appeared to be rejecting the user/password info. I was able to map just fine to the shares on an XP Pro machine. I did some digging and found a couple links that assisted in fixing the issue.

The first link I ran across was this one:
http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746

This article explained that I needed to run secpol.msc from the run command window. Well it didn’t appear that Vista Home Premium had that application. I was forced to keep searching the intarweb for answers.

Here is the second link I ran across:
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=660925&SiteID=1

This post helped me fix the authentication issues in Vista. I had to do the following:
1. Run regedit from run command window
2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel
3. Modify LMCompatibilityLevel from 0×3 to 0×1
4. Exit regedit
5. Done!