From: mike 


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



On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:30:29 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>Geo - I noticed that I had to apply the Buffalo registry patch (changing the
>LmCompatibilityLevel)   to Vista before I could access the Terastation from
>Vista - had no problem with XP or OS X
>
>
>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
>"LmCompatibilityLevel"=dword:00000002
>
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/08/SecurityWatch/?rela
ted=/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/08/SecurityWatch
>
>Although Windows Vista has not been released yet, it is worthwhile to point
>out some changes in this operating system related to these protocols. The
>most important change is that the LM protocol can no longer be used for
>inbound authentication-where Windows Vista is acting as the authentication
>server. Windows Vista will no longer store the LM hash by default. Acting as
>a client, Windows Vista also makes a change to outbound protocols by setting
>LMCompatibilityLevel to 3 by default. In other words, NTLMv2 will finally be
>the default protocol for non-domain authentication. In the next scheduled
>release of the Windows Server platform, code-named "Longhorn
Server," a lot
>of work has been done to reduce the need for NTLM altogether. In Windows
>Server 2003, NTLM, and sometimes even LM, is used in many cases, such as in
>clusters. In the next version of the operating systems many of these
>protocols will finally be turned off by default.
>

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