[zodieman]

I’ve given up totally on Retrospect all but for the simplest of environments where I can have a dedicated person babysit that damn thing 😉

We’re totally hip on BRU now. I’ve several clients with Xserves with the new Exabyte VXA-172 loader (SCSI) with BRU as the backup program and they’re rock solid. Never a hiccup and they work like a charm. More than I can say about Retrospect in the same config… However considering the costs of external drives now and the capacities going up all the time it can be hard to justify tape backups in some cases. I have several redundant backup schemes now involving pure D2D backups using UNIX scripts and rsync as a backup server.

Trev Page
Senior System Engineer
GraphicCARE Solutions
http://www.graphiccare.ca

[zodieman]

Yes, Vista defaults to NTLMV2 auth which gives stock Macs and Xserves running SMB headaches. You can downgrade the Vista auth requirements by altering the security policy. Depending on the version of Vista you’re running you can do the following:

If you use using Windows Vista Home Premium you will need to make a small edit to the registry to downgrade to plain NTLM authentication.
Click the Windows menu and type “regedit” in the search field. Press return to launch Regedit. Navigate to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel
And change value of the of default entry from 3 to 1. Click OK to save and you should be able to connect to your Mac clients and Servers.

If you are running Windows Vista Business or Ultimate you may use the “secpol.msc” applet (click the Windows menu and type it in the search field).
1. Open the Run command and type “secpol.msc”.
2. Press “continue” when prompted by Vista.
3. Click on “Local Policies” –> “Security Options”
4. Navigate to the policy “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level” and open it.
5. By default Windows Vista sets the policy to “NTVLM2 responses only”. Change this to “LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated”.
Once you’ve done this Windows Vista will be able to view network drives based on Samba servers and should fix any issues around using Samba as a Primary Domain Controller.

Trev Page
Senior Systems Engineer
GraphicCARE Solutions
http://www.graphiccare.ca

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