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to: Geo.
from: Rich
date: 2007-01-25 18:37:20
subject: Re: accessing Buffalo Terrastation from Vista ( LmCompatibilityLevel )

From: "Rich" 

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   I wondered why the buffalo product is less secure and requires =
reducing the security of Windows clients.  Some searching around the net =
turns up that the buffalo product used samba and that is why it not able =
to run as securely.  It looks like others are finding that samba based =
devices are forcing them to reduce security as well.  See =
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2073990,00.asp.

Rich

  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45b94703{at}w3.nls.net...
  My mistake, there is LM, NTLM, NTLM2, I'm set for NTLM and it works.

  Geo.

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:45b84ff3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     If the terrastation supports NTLMv2, why does buffalo tell folks to =

  reduce the security of Windows to access buffalo's product?

  Rich

    "Geo."  wrote in message =
news:45b826c5{at}w3.nls.net...
    LM is a requirement for really old windows type networking, =
(Actually the
    terastation can do NTLM2) it's far less secure than how current =
versions=20
  of
    windows work which is why vista has it diabled by default. It's =
actually a
    good thing MS did on this one. They could have made it give you a =
decent
    error message though and with all the wizards it could have offered =
to=20
  turn
    it on. But it took me almost no time at all to figure it out.

    Geo.

    "mike"  wrote in message
    news:sf5gr2pbf7bo0471qpqvc2c6bqu29av3i4{at}4ax.com...
    >
    > Wow, Vista is beginning to sound like Linux.
    >
    > ~you have to apply this patch for this thing to work, that patch =
for
    > that thing to work...~
    >
    > /m


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   I
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less secure and requires reducing the security of Windows
clients.  = Some=20
searching around the net turns up that the buffalo product used samba = and that=20
is why it not able to run as securely.  It looks like others are =
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week.com/article2/0,1895,2073990,00.asp.
 
Rich
 

  "Geo." <georger{at}nls.net>">mailto:georger{at}nls.net">georger{at}nls.net>
wrote=20
  in message news:45b94703{at}w3.nls.net...My=
=20
  mistake, there is LM, NTLM, NTLM2, I'm set for NTLM and it=20
  works.Geo."Rich"
<{at}> wrote in message news:45b84ff3$1{at}w3.nls.net...=
  =20
  If the terrastation supports NTLMv2, why does buffalo tell folks to =
reduce=20
  the security of Windows to access buffalo's =
product?Rich =20
  "Geo." <georger{at}nls.net>">mailto:georger{at}nls.net">georger{at}nls.net>
=
wrote in=20
  message news:45b826c5{at}w3.nls.net...&nbs=
p; LM=20
  is a requirement for really old windows type networking, (Actually=20
  the  terastation can do NTLM2) it's far less secure than how =
current=20
  versions of  windows work which is why vista has it =
diabled by=20
  default. It's actually a  good thing MS did on this one. They =
could=20
  have made it give you a decent  error message though and with =
all the=20
  wizards it could have offered to turn  it
on. But it took =
me=20
  almost no time at all to figure it out.  =
Geo. =20
  "mike" <mike{at}barkto.com>">mailto:mike{at}barkto.com">mike{at}barkto.com>
=
wrote in=20
  message  news:sf5gr2pbf7b=
o0471qpqvc2c6bqu29av3i4{at}4ax.com... =20
  >  > Wow, Vista is beginning to sound like =
Linux. =20
  >  > ~you have to apply this patch for
this thing to =
work, that=20
  patch for  > that thing to work...~  =
>  >=20
  /m

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