[iyonix-support] Re: Vista

  • From: Nigel Willmott <nwillmott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:30:36 +0100

In message <62a527be4f.dougjwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4fbe204fa2lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
>           Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> In a dim and distant universe <4fbe1bb5adriscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>    Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:
>>> Vista/RISC  OS networking seems to be a sore point. Quite a few users
>>> have tried but it seems fraught with problems. Have you tried Paul
>>> Vigay's site - I believe he was going to write up some user notes about
>>> this problem. I believe Paul managed to get this to work but involved
>>> some nasty hacking of the registry. I'm sorry to be so negative.

>> Unfortunately, it wasn't reliable enough to warrant adding to my site, as I
>> thought it might get people's hopes up and then disappoint them with
>> results.

>> Basically, I could only succeed in transferring very small files (ie. less
>> than about 10KB), as anything bigger than that would time out or result in
>> a 0 byte length file.

> [snip]

> Well I have it working in a fashion.

> Paul is correct in that it seems to time out but it does transfer
> files in both directions but it takes a while and you do have to wait
> and click on some error messages. I have transferred files up to 1MB.

> It will only do this for files that are shared by all users and not if
> you set it up to access individual accounts.

> This is with Vista Home premium SP1.

> I believe the issue may be that Vista an enhanced version of NTLMv2
> with encryption and though it can be set to use the older LM or NTLM
> protocols via Admin Tools the option is missing in Home versions and
> only available in Business or Ultimate ones.

> So if anyone has Business or ultimate versions it would be good to try

> Administrative Tools>Local security Policy>Network Security: Lan
> Manager authentication level> Change from "Send NTLMv2 response only
> to Send LM & NTLM -use NTLMv2 version security if negotiated".

> Doug

Thanks for all those responses ... I have had trouble networking the 
Vista machine to existing PCs. It doesn't seem possible to get a new 
machine with XP on it. Might follow up the SP1 tip ... but it looks as 
though using Uniprint is a non-starter though.

Nigel

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