ubuntu 10.4 samba on windows 7

[Ben Edwards]

Tom,

Thanks for your reply.  Currently I am only trying to get win7
connected (alough I may need also to do WinXP in the furture).  I have
put 'client ntlmv2 auth = yes' in the global section.  I followed the
comunity docs and did the following:

  [homes]
  comment = Home Directories
  browseable = yes

  read only = no

and did

  sudo  smbpasswd -a username
  sudo smbpasswd -e username

and reloaded smbd.

I am still unable to connect to the ben user on the box whitch is
called purple with \\purple\ben.

Both smbd and win7 are in same domain.  I can browse to purple in
Network and type credentials (whitch seems to be accepted) but then
get nothing in the write pace (there is a directory in the home folder
of the ben user.  I can create directories/files etc.

Any ideas,
Ben



On 21 July 2010 18:16, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ben Edwards <list4me2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am going to atempt to set up Samba on a Ubuntu Server 10.4 box and connect
> > a Windows 7 box to it. Is this lickly to work/is there anything I should
> > know?
>
> You have to have "client ntlmv2 auth = yes" in smb.conf for the samba
> authentication an authorization security to be strong enough for
> Windows 7's security policy to allow a connection to the samba server.
>
> Will you have any other win clients connecting? winvista will be ok
> with that setting, winxp and older win versions will have to have
> their LMCompatibilityLevel changed.
>
> If you google samba and win7, you will find many/far more people
> advocating weakening the security level of win7 and winvista so as not
> to require nllmv2 on a samba server. Bad advice AFAIC.
>
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