David Trebacz Blog

For whatever reason my Windows 7 machine stopped accepting my credentials for my Windows 2000 server mapped drive shares. I had been using mapped drives in Windows 7 for at least a year. I did have a stuck Windows 7 upgrade, that forced to to go back to a previous restore point. I also ended up reinstalling my antivirus. I could login via remote desktop, so I knoew the cedentials were correct and the account was not locked. The solution that worked in about 30 seconds was adding the LmCompatibilityLevel registry key to my Windows 7 Home PC: Open Notepad (or your favorite text editor): Copy the text below and paste in Notepad: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] "LmCompatibilityLevel"=dword:00000002 Save the file on your desktop (or anywhere else) as name.reg - ".reg" is important. Run the file and press yes on the 2 pop ups. There is no need to restart -my mapped drive just began working again. ...

I wanted to backup a couple new Windows 7 Home Premium PC's on my local home network using my current installation of BackupPC  on Ubuntu . I have a mix of linux and Windows PC's on my network. I have enjoyed using BackupPC as my central backup system for all of our PC's (8 at last count) in our house. I have used RSYNCD , but find the configuration of SMB, just a lot easier. For my home network, I'm not really concerned about SSH secure communication on my firewalled home network for my backups. In order to set it up I needed to create a users account on the machine. I have used a special backuppc user on each machine that is backed up. I set up each backuppc user as an administrator. In the past I set the accounts up without user logins and only backup administrator rights. It would appear that Microsoft has crippled the ability to manage user accounts and groups in Windows 7 Home Premium edition. I was able to get my BackupPC to be able ...