ubuntu 10.4 samba on windows 7

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Ben Edwards <list4me2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

It looks like a problem with permissions on purple. Check whether the
user who logs on to purple has the right to access that directory.