Get Vista and Samba to work

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andrew - 15/12/06

Do you know if there is a policy for Fedora to map a share to Vista? I tried this policy but will still not allow me to authenticate from Fedora to Vista share.

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Brendon Chase - 15/12/06

Hi Andrew,
I haven't booted up Fedora in a while but I assume you can share via Samba still?

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toby - 15/12/06

Samba should be enhanced to provide the authentication that Vista expects.

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Chris - 15/12/06

Uhm.... My Vista Business machine I installed yesterday has connected to my Samba shares on CentOS 4.3 without any problems. Is this issue only one machines on a domain, or certain versions of Windows?

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Jason - 15/12/06

I have noticed that mapping a drive works fine, but unc paths (\\server\share) only show empty folders. Very strange.

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Jason - 15/12/06

This could be because of the fact that smb is configure to pass authentication to our ADS domain.

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Chris - 15/12/06

Hmm. I just tried \\IP\share and \\FQDN\share and it worked fine

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Antro - 16/12/06

hi andrew

i think you only had problems with selinux

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Jeff Yana - 16/12/06

This, in my opinion, is a flawed approach. It is far better to modify your Samba server then to downgrade the security of the client. For secure Samba coonections, ensure that LANMAN and LANMANAUTH are disabled, then secure NTLMv2 connections only will be negotiated. See lanman auth (G) in smb.conf for details...

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Zweine Zg - 16/12/06

Better option yet, get rid of the NTLMv2 and move into proper kerberos authentication for CIFS. Both Microsoft and Samba.org should be removing all that legacy support slowly at this moment and stop wasting their time supporting such stuff.

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Spencer - 16/12/06

NTLMv2 is available in Samba 3.0 which is available. You just have to configure it on your linux box. Well that is if you do not have to install version 3.0

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Bruno - 20/12/06

We have samba 3 for linux and bsd so who cares ?

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exsive - 22/12/06

hey guys i was wondering if you kno how to get vista to share with the original xbox, i kno the xbox uses samba as its connection method to the network.

The xbox can see the computer but it wont connect or access the shared folders on the vista comp.

Any Ideas?

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Rick Galbraith - 03/01/07

I just linked to this blog from a web page at www.iprance.ca

http://www.iprance.ca/tech-support/Vista/VistaNetworkingWoe1.html

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Dennis - 24/01/07

Hey Jason,
I have the same problem you discribed. When I connect to my Samba-Server by UNC I only got an empty folder. If I connect by creating an network drive I see the content of the directories, but I can't open anything. If I try to open e.g. a MP3-File it cannot be opened by the player. If I copy the file to the Vista-PC it can be read properly.
Has anyone an idea? I think if I can solve the UNC problem the other will be gone as well.
My Samba-Version is 3.0.23d ... below my config!

[global]

        workgroup = labamba

        unix password sync = yes

        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

        guest ok = no

        security = user

        protocol = standard

        encrypt passwords = yes





        #for vista compatibility

        client lanman auth = no

        client ntlmv2 auth = yes

        domain logons = yes

        guest account = nobody





        netbios name = linux

        wins support = no

        wins server = 192.168.0.200



[www]

        path = /srv/www/htdocs

        read only = no

        guest ok = no

        valid users = dennis, andrea

        force user = dennis

        create mode = 0775

        directory mode = 0775

        create mask = 0775

        directory mask = 0775

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Tim - 31/01/07

If you're running a version of Vista that cannot use secpol.msc, you can edit the registry instead. Just change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel from a 3 to a 1.

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Pierre Vandevenne - 06/02/07

Thanks Tim - you saved me a significant amount of time.

Pierre

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Dan - 08/02/07

Thank you very much for this. I have an old Linux install with Samba running. Vista user due to a crashed main machine. This article saved me much frustration and time.

Tim - you suggestion was spot on.

Dan
http://www.tnpcnewsletter.com/

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Alejandro - 10/02/07

Thanks very much Tim.
It saved me hours.

Alejandro.

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steven - 13/02/07

Brendon, thank you soooooooooooo much. I have been going crazy trying to figure this out. I called Microsoft and they didn't have a clue. You are the best!!

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JTO - 14/02/07

Tim - your solution worked, however, I can't copy any file that is over 1 MB to the mac. It gives a network error "There is a problem accessing C:\Users|JTO\Desktop\Sample Pictures\1050065.jpg Make sure you are connected to the network and try again." I'm able to copy any size file from the mac to vista and small files from vista to mac.

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Arnaud - 20/02/07

Hi,

There's a problem with this solution, "secpol.msc" doesn't work on Vista Home. Is there a different way to change this parameters or to install the security manager ?

thanx

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Wim Hultink - 24/02/07

I got the same problem with Vista Premium and spent hours to make it work but do not have the msc and am not using Samba.

Maybe it will work with Samba too??

I found the solution:

Go to Networks and right click on the 'empty' network map.
Select 'make a network connection'.
Give the connection a drive letter.

When finished, your virtual drive will be shown in 'my computer' and can be accessed like any drive.

I hope this will help.

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Luis Jimenez - 25/02/07

Hola
Muchisimas gracias por los consejos que he leido en este articulo. Lo he seguido al pie de la letra y ha funcionado perfectamente con SAMBA.
Me ha servido de gran ayuda.
Muchas Gracias

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Jack - 26/02/07

Does this fix work for Vista Home Basic versions? I can not find the secpol.msc file to run this fix. If not what versions of Vista will work with Samba?

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Claudio - 27/02/07

Tks Tim...

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Den - 02/03/07

I use a terminal emulation package and print to the client default printer. Prior to Vista the PCL commands would work on the printer now they don't. They simply print at the top of the page. Any ideas on getting them to work again??

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Martin - 17/03/07

Tim, you're a diamond. That worked. Thanks.

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FurÃ© - 26/03/07

Thanks ! It works fine !

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Altay - 27/03/07

When I created a folder on a samba drive (on a Solaris system), Vista does not allow me to use space character in the name of the new folder created. The message is "The drive that this file or folder is stored on does not allow long file names, or names containing blanks or any of the following characters: \ / : , * ? " < > |".

In fact, spacechar is ok to be used in Solaris file/folder names.
Even further, Vista names the folder it creates as "New fldr".
Although I found this very funny, I didn't like it at all.
Does any body have a solution for this.

Altay

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Latrell - 28/03/07

My problem is when my vista (enterprise) try to connect a public share, authentication window popped up. Public share should not need to key in username/pwd. If I use correct username / pwd, I can login in the share and view the content. If I use username which not existing, the authentication will fail. My samba version is 23d.
I use map to guest = bad user and public = yes in share setting. Other windows client work find. Can anyone give me hints?

Thanks,
Latrell

[global]

        dos charset = UTF8

        display charset = UTF8

        unix charset = UTF8

        server string = %h

        netbios name = test

        write ok = yes

        guest account = smbguest

        map to guest = bad user

        encrypt passwords = yes

        map archive = no

        max log size= 50

        client use spnego = no

        auth methods = guest sam_ignoredomain winbind:ntdomain

        host msdfs = yes

        winbind use default domain = yes



        workgroup = df

        security = user



        create mask = 777

        directory mask = 777

        force create mode = 777

        force directory mode = 777

[public]

        path = /tmp/public/

        comment = for anonymous CIFS users.

        public = yes

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Riaz - 29/03/07

IT IS WORKING FINE.IT WORKS..

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Brandon - 05/04/07

I've had the same problem with Vista Ultimate, but for some reason this fix didn't work. It did allow my Vista PC to stream music from my XP machine : )

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DrLife - 06/04/07

Wim Hultink

This worked for me solving a problem with the wrt350N Linksys router with storage usb plug.

great thanks

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Richard - 07/04/07

Dennis Comment 15 - To fix the empty UNC folders, logon scripts, etc add the following to smb.conf

[Global]
host msdfs = no

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Simon Langley - 23/04/07

Thanks for this. I had been having trouble with my Fedora Core 5 SAMBA server after I upgraded my family's computers (but curiously not with an old Debian distro) and this fixed it for me.

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Ove N - 23/04/07

I have Vista and i have problem connect to my NAS drive wich use SAMBA.
It can be done with programs like Total Commander with no problems.
But when i use network maps in vista, Vista stop working.
I have tried all this trick mention in this article, but with no sucsess.
Somone have any ideeas. (pardon my English)

reg . Ove

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å·¥æŽ§ç½‘ - 30/04/07

This worked for me solving a problem with the wrt350N Linksys router with storage usb plug.

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Marky Goldstein - 01/05/07

Indeed it is another sign of weakness of Vista to not be able to connect to Linux File Servers and / or Samba File Servers. And it might interest the European Committees that currently investigate Microsofts market behaviour. They are now investigating structural changes on Microsoft's participation in the European Market. It's the first time in our European history that a company does not follow the Antitrust regulations... anyway, we users just want good computers that work with our Linux file servers.

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Dudeness - 04/05/07

I have the same problem as user 'exsive'. I use an old xbox with XBMC. I can see my workgroup and computername \\dude\, but I cant connect to it. Is it possible that my (older) version of XBMC uses an older version of Samba (<3.0)?

If anyone could please help? I 'm trying for day and get real frustrated! :-)

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Miro - 18/05/07

I have exactly the same problem as Ove, still searching for a solution...

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azeo - 27/05/07

I still cant connect my old xbox with vista ultimate

This is my setup:

I have 2 vista 32 bit operating systems, i can connect to both of them and share my files, I also have an old xbox which i update to xbmc 2.0x and works like a beauty ! bit for some reason I cant connect to my vista share Movie/MP3 shared folder that i can access from my other vista machine.

I go into my XBMC and click on my videos and i can see my network ( WORKGROUP) then i click it and see both my vista pc.... pc1..

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Ian Langdon - 06/06/07

Maybe already said, my appologies as I am in a rush, however I am using Samba 3, as a domain controller and its perfectly fine with Vista. For those who need to know.

Specifically the Samba3 distributed with SuSE 10

Cheers.
Ian

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Roberto De Donato - 11/06/07

I still can't connect my pc with operating system Windows Vista Business at a Linux server having Samba version 2.2.7. Can you help me in some way?

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Giesi - 17/06/07

Thank you very much for your introduction.

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Yoann - 18/06/07

Thk, it's work fine.

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stormfire - 04/07/07

I have a nas drive that uses samba, the vista machine could always see the nas drive, the problem is that I can access the nas drive but I can not write to the nas drive, it keeps saying that the drive is full, when it is not, any idea on how to fix this problem?

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MadatLinksys - 28/07/07

I have same issue as stormfire, it sucks... any resolution yet? Windows Explorer is reporting the drive is full, can't write.

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Stefan - 28/07/07

I have a NAS (manufacturer SUNRISE, I was not able to find out which SMB version's running on that). Mapping folders as a drive on a WIN2K PC is no problem. However, on my other PC running Vista Home Premium I can see the folders, map them as drives but not actually access any files.

I highly appreciate any help, thanks.

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Stefan - 29/07/07

I could fix the problem by updating the firmware of my NAS enclosure (SUNRISE). http://www.enclosureservice.com/

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Scott - 11/08/07

Thank you; i was close to throwing this damn computer out the window!

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Scott - 11/08/07

Thank you; i was close to throwing this damn computer out the window!

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Scott Danforth - 15/08/07

Thank you, Thank you! And thanks to Google for finding you your note!

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