For Windows® Vista
operating systems, shares must be shared for the Guest or Everyone
accounts, and password protected sharing must be disabled for the Microsoft® Windows Server Message Broker (SMB) protocol
to be used.
About this task
To disable password protected sharing, complete the following
steps:
Procedure
- Click .
- Click the down arrow that is next to Password
protected sharing.
- Click Turn off password protected sharing.
- Click Apply, and exit the control
panel.
What to do next
The new User Account Control feature in Windows Vista requires users to complete
several steps before Optim™ Database
Administrator can communicate with Windows Vista
targets. If you have a domain user account, ensure that the local
and the target machine are both members of a Windows domain. If you are a member of a
local administrators group and you use a local user account, complete
the following three steps to be able to perform administrative tasks
on the target machine:
- Enable the built-in Administrator account and use it to connect.
To enable the built-in Administrator account, open the Windows Control Panel and click . Then double-click on Accounts: Administrator
account status, and select enable.
- Disable User Account Control if a different Administrator user
account is to be used to connect to the Vista target. To disable User
Account Control, open the Windows Control
Panel and click Administrative ToolsLocal
Security PolicyLocal PoliciesSecurity
Settings Security Options. Then
double-click on User Account Control: Run all administrators
in Admin Approval Mode, and select disable.
Changing this setting requires a system reboot.
- Disable User Account Control when you administer a workstation
with a local user account (Security Account Manager user account).
Otherwise, you will not connect as a full administrator and will not
be able to perform administrative tasks.
To disable User Account
Control, complete the following steps:
- Click Start, click Run,
type regedit, and then press Enter.
- Locate and click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
- If the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry entry does not exist,
follow these steps:
- On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD
Value.
- Type LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, then
press Enter.
- Right-click LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy,
then click Modify.
- In the Value data box, type 1,
then click OK.
- Restart your computer.
Alternatively, you can modify the registry entry manually by
typing the following command from a command line:
cmd /c
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system
/v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f