Hi
First thing first I know this is a long question so thank you for reading!
I am absolutely tearing my hair out with this one. I think I am way out of my depth trying to solve it on my own so any help would be appreciated.
I have Windows Vista Home Basic on my laptop, I purchased a Network HDD case and installed my own spare hard drive.
I set it up (the network HDD) through the web based program and made a password protected shared folder and a non protected shared folder. XP recognized everything and I can access both folders.
Vista however, shows everything in the "network" folder, but, I then click on the password protected folder, it prompts me as you would expect for a password and a user name I entered the user name and password. No matter what I tried it wouldn't work, after hours and hours of searching on the net, I found out that I need to change LmCompatibilityLevel in the registry. It was on 3 so I changed it to 2, I went to the folder in question clicked on it, it prompted me, I entered the user name and password and to my surprise it worked!
I tried to open one of the sub-folders, clicked on it, it starts to load, it continues loading and does absolutely nothing! Roughly for about 10-15 minutes. The HDD is not working (by that I mean not loading files or anything else) while Vista is supposedly loading, as I can tell from the usage lights on the back.
So I try to open the other folder without a password on it, I can get into the folder then as with the password protected folder when I click on one of the sub-folders it just loads and loads, it never opens it. I thought well hold on it did before it must be the LmCompatibilityLevel setting that I changed, so I changed it back to 3, and for good measure re-booted the system and it made no difference. So I went from passwords not working to not working at all!
I don't know if changing the LmCompatibilityLevel could have then altered some other setting in Vista somehow.
But any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Rick
First thing first I know this is a long question so thank you for reading!
I am absolutely tearing my hair out with this one. I think I am way out of my depth trying to solve it on my own so any help would be appreciated.
I have Windows Vista Home Basic on my laptop, I purchased a Network HDD case and installed my own spare hard drive.
I set it up (the network HDD) through the web based program and made a password protected shared folder and a non protected shared folder. XP recognized everything and I can access both folders.
Vista however, shows everything in the "network" folder, but, I then click on the password protected folder, it prompts me as you would expect for a password and a user name I entered the user name and password. No matter what I tried it wouldn't work, after hours and hours of searching on the net, I found out that I need to change LmCompatibilityLevel in the registry. It was on 3 so I changed it to 2, I went to the folder in question clicked on it, it prompted me, I entered the user name and password and to my surprise it worked!
I tried to open one of the sub-folders, clicked on it, it starts to load, it continues loading and does absolutely nothing! Roughly for about 10-15 minutes. The HDD is not working (by that I mean not loading files or anything else) while Vista is supposedly loading, as I can tell from the usage lights on the back.
So I try to open the other folder without a password on it, I can get into the folder then as with the password protected folder when I click on one of the sub-folders it just loads and loads, it never opens it. I thought well hold on it did before it must be the LmCompatibilityLevel setting that I changed, so I changed it back to 3, and for good measure re-booted the system and it made no difference. So I went from passwords not working to not working at all!
I don't know if changing the LmCompatibilityLevel could have then altered some other setting in Vista somehow.
But any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Rick