From: "Geo." 

Yeah, I figured that one out on my own first day using Vista. I edited the
registry too but then Rich pointed out there was a policy setting to
control this.

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45b7fd53$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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/?rel
ated=/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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