More random Vista pain

October 15, 2007 by Santaduck.

I have my vista laptop (and xp box) networked into my Mac OS X network on my Airport Extreme. I finally got both XP and Vista machines on the same “WORKGROUP” (by changing XP from MSHOME to WORKGROUP). And my Vista machines could access my Macs, and vice-versa.

However, here I am a couple Vista updates later in mid October 2007, and my saved passwords no longer work: I can’t access my Macs from Vista. The old saved passwords simply don’t work. These used to be of the form:

MACHINE\USERNAME (or machine\username)

For example, say my Mac is named “NORTHPOLE” in the Computer Name field of Sharing in System Preferences, and say my username is rudolph.

My login from Vista would be: NORTHPOLE\RUDOLPH
My password would be normal.

Well it was no longer working. I even tried the same via typing in my IP in the Network App in Vista: \\10.0.1.xxx\NORTHPOLE, then trying the same login.

Well I finally figured it out. Now it requires a MIX of caps and lowercase. The machine name must be caps, and the username (which goes to the Mac OS) must be lowercase.

So, in the above example, the correct login would be:
NORTHPOLE\rudolph

Go figure.

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