As I find myself rarely needing to network my MacBook Pro with anything nowadays I inevitably find myself having to trawl a noise of Google results to obtain the desired effect.

Should be straightforward enough. I’ve enabled file sharing on the mac and been networking most flavours of Windows over the years. The problem is that on authenticating as the appropriate mac user from the Vista end the expected mac user-name format of macmachinename\user-name isn’t accepted. Read the rest of this entry »