{"id":241,"date":"2014-08-19T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"connecting-to-a-windows-2000-share-from-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to a Windows 2000 Share from Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open the &#8220;Local Security Policy&#8221; manager (can be found in the Start Menu search.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to <em>Local Policies, Security Options<\/em>.\u00a0 Then find the\u00a0&#8220;Network security: LAN Manager authentication level&#8221; entry and set it to &#8220;Send LM &amp;NTLM &#8211; use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, this policy can be set via the command line:<\/p>\n<pre>REG ADD HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa \/v LmCompatibilityLevel \/t REG_DWORD \/d 00000001 \/f<\/pre>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t adversely affect connection to Windows 7+ shares.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/faq\/16438\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/faq\/16438<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Update:<\/h2>\n<p>The setting above causes problems when attempting to connect to a remote desktop through a remote desktop gateway server (running Windows Server 2012 R2).\u00a0 It must be set to the default &#8220;Send NTLMv2 Only&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This policy can be set via the command line:<\/p>\n<pre>REG ADD HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa \/v LmCompatibilityLevel \/t REG_DWORD \/d 00000003 \/f<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open the &#8220;Local Security Policy&#8221; manager (can be found in the Start Menu search. Navigate to Local Policies, Security Options.\u00a0 Then find the\u00a0&#8220;Network security: LAN Manager authentication level&#8221; entry and set it to &#8220;Send LM &amp;NTLM &#8211; use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.&#8221;. Alternatively, this policy can be set via the command line: REG ADD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[47,43,48,46,37,45,44],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-authentication","tag-networking","tag-rdp","tag-security-policies","tag-windows","tag-windows-2000","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}