Vista and Samba Question

[Ron Swift]

Thanks to everyone for your help on this issue. As some had suggested, 
the fix on the Samba 3 side was:

   1. Set Security = user
   2. Add client lanman auth = no and client ntlmv2 auth = yes

Lastly, the Vista username/password should be the same as the Samba 
username/password to make it work without periodically disconnecting 
from the mapped drives.

Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> Having used Vista for almost 3 months now, I can say that it is really a
> horrible OS, compared to XP or W2k. But to be constructive here:
>
> I do have my vista connecting to a secure/authenticated samba share on the
> my internal network and it works fine most of the time, but sometimes it
> does lose the connection and have to wait for couple of minutes for it to
> regain the connection.
>
> I have noticed one weird thing though:
> If my user ID on Vista is different from the one on the share drive, this
> disconnecting happens at least once a day. But if my user IDs and passwords
> are the same on both Vista and Samba share, it hardly disconnects. After
> some time, it does shows that the disk is disconnected, but if I wait a
> minute or so, the explorer/file manager or whatever they call the folder
> navigating window in windows, refreshes and I can navigate my shared
> folders.
>
> I do have some issues of disconnects while using un-authenticated windows
> share, but that is a different story.
>
> There used to be an article which talked about getting vista to work with
> Samba, if I find it, I will forward the link.
>
> Thanks
>
> -GGR
> Rajiv G Gunja
> Ph: 44 33 55 44 96
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 11:21 AM, Ron Swift <rswift at swiftstaffing.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I had found that post a couple days ago and changed the Vista machine
>> setting per the post. It connected to the secured samba share but not
>> the user's home share on the samba server. Later in the day, it
>> disconnected and we were not able to re-connect. It will connect to the
>> public shares without any problems so it is definitely an authentication
>> issue. The Vista box is not in my office so I don't have immediate
>> access to it to try possible fixes.
>> I am also using Samba 3.0.22 which is the latest in the dapper repository.
>>
>> cgregan at aptenix.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Since the rest of the list might also want to know, and I forgot to
>>> include them:
>>>
>>> Looks like the issue is Vista security policy is set to only use
>>> NTLMv2 authentication. This can be adjusted in Vista.
>>>
>>> It also appears as though the Samba team has worked out this issue on
>>> their side by adding NTLMv2 Authentication to Samba in v3
>>>
>>> Here are the details for changing the policy in Vista:
>>>
>>>       
>> http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746
>>     
>>> Ron,
>>> Please let us all know if this fixes the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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