Hi everyone.... this will be an article is on Samba and Vista.... I've always believed in Windows and Open Source Software co-existing. Windows and Linux have been dancing together for quite sometime now.... till Vista... due to some changes in the way it authenticates NTLM... Readon...

Ok... I know all you people with Samba 3 and above, will start saying... hey.. just upgrade to Samba 3 well yeah.... if it is any normal version of linux that is updated you would probably already have Samba 3 and not face this problems. THe big issue "IS" for those of us where upgrading to Samba 3 is not an option. Like in the case of my Archos PMA400 which I happily updated to run Openpma. It now supports Samba fully but argh... yep old version of Samba..

Anyway... the work around that will help

Goto your control panel in Vista Goto Administrative tools

Choose Local Security Policy

Go to Local Policy security options

Then select Network Security: Lan Manager Authentication Level

 Choose Send LM & NTLM use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated 

Up till here you are good to go with the NTLM problems

But you might not want to forget mapping as a drive with the account settings you created in Samba, else you might still not be able to connect tricky tricky... tsk tsk...

See piccys below for the mapping

Click the start menu then click on computer, Then choose to map drive

Next don't forget to choose connect using a different user name. Enter your the account and password for use in Samba.

For being able to map Samba on my Archos I give this  cool smilies!!!

Comments (9)

	1. 03-06-2009 03:51
	local security policy folder in vista ho I cannot find LSP folder inside Administrative tools folder in control panel. How to locate it? Guest Report

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	2. 03-06-2009 03:50
	local security policy folder in vista ho I cannot find local security policy in vista home premium.    How to locate LSP folder? Guest Report

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	3. 29-11-2008 14:17
	local security policy folder in vista ho hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Guest Report

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	4. 04-11-2008 20:45
	Samba and Vista Didn't work, it complains about samba session setup failed: NT_STATUS_OK now. Guest Report

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	5. 01-10-2008 16:12
	Samba and Vista It works. The same outcome can be achieved by changing  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCo mpatibilityLevel from a 3 to a 1. Guest Report

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	6. 30-06-2008 23:39
	samba version hi should this work with any version of samba?    Cheers Tony Guest Report

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	7. 24-04-2008 06:02
	not work if i've connect using "cmd" and type "\\192.168.0.102\mines", samba server ask me "user name" and "password", but why i've got "Access Denied". if i connect using my XP with the same IP is nothing trouble? Guest Report

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	8. 12-02-2008 17:48
	Samba on vista I've tried all those steps but i steal can map directories from my server.is there anything missing Guest Report

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	9. 18-09-2007 04:27
	Samba on vista This makes it so I can use damn Vista Ultimate to connect to a Mac OS X 10.4 samba server.    I hate vista. Guest Report

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