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Getting Windows 7 to play nice with OS X file servers

Jul 29
Posted by mkokes in Technology

I’ve heard of a lot of people running into this issue so I figured I’d post up the fix. I ran into this myself today. I’m testing out Windows 7 and some of the servers I connect to on a daily basis are OS X fileservers. Prior to the upgrade I wasn’t having any trouble and since the servers and my workstation are both pulling from active directory so there’s no doubt that my user name and password are identical on both ends. When I would try to connect to a share I would just be continually prompted for my username and password which it would tell me was incorrect. Well it turns out there is a fix and it’s really easy to to do, just follow the directions below on your Windows 7 machine.

1. Go to the Start Menu
2. Search for: security
3. Click on Local Security Policy
4. Goto Local Policies> Security Options
5. Double Click on Network security: LAN Manager Authentication
6. Change level to: Send LM & LTLM Responses

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Active Directory and Open Directory Integration – Part 1

Nov 18
Posted by mkokes in Technology

Recently at the company I work for we’ve been working on getting our Macs and PCs to all play nice together using the same repository for authentication.

We currently have an Active Directory domain in place with multiple domain controllers residing at multiple sites. All of our PCs are joined to the domain and all windows users have domain accounts. We also have multiple OS X servers at various locations functioning as standalone file servers. Each OS X server functions as its own user repository. In order for a windows machine to connect to one of the OS X machines an identical user account needs to be created to allow the windows credentials to pass through upon connection.

While this works in some scenarios at a certain point it becomes unmanageable. There are just too many accounts to keep synchronized. It becomes somewhat impossible to enforce an automated password change policy. So this was our problem and here are the steps we took to fix it.

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