Can't access a samba share from Windows Vista or Windows 7 ?
This happened to me which triggered this post, apparently accessing a samba network share from Vista or Windows7 sometimes causes a looped or impossible authentication. It keeps asking a password although you've typed the correct one.
The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication or it's disabled.
What do you do? ...follow these steps...worked for me :-))
1. Open the Run command and type "secpol.msc".
2. Press "continue" when prompted.
3. Click on "Local Policies" --> "Security Options"
4. Navigate to the policy "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it.
5. Change this to "LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated".
Once you’ve done this Windows Vista / Windows 7 will be able to view network drives based on Samba servers and should fix any issues around using Samba as a Primary Domain Controller.
This happened to me which triggered this post, apparently accessing a samba network share from Vista or Windows7 sometimes causes a looped or impossible authentication. It keeps asking a password although you've typed the correct one.
The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication or it's disabled.
What do you do? ...follow these steps...worked for me :-))
1. Open the Run command and type "secpol.msc".
2. Press "continue" when prompted.
3. Click on "Local Policies" --> "Security Options"
4. Navigate to the policy "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it.
5. Change this to "LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated".
Once you’ve done this Windows Vista / Windows 7 will be able to view network drives based on Samba servers and should fix any issues around using Samba as a Primary Domain Controller.
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