[olug] Win 7 and Samba

[DYNATRON tech]

i have had many problems with smb in ubuntu over the years. it was fixed in
9.04, but still sucked generally.

if you need a good smb client for linux, i recommend smb4k.
as far as serving, i hate to say it, but that's what i use my only windows
box for.


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:23 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> No, I'm using openSUSE 11.2, but I wonder if they're having the same
> problem. Both would likely be using a very new build of Samba 3.x
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> >> I haven't got it to work yet.
> >> I set up network shares in Windows 7, and set my workgroup.
> >> I go to a Linux box, setup Samba just like I normally do with the
> >> workgroup, and passwords. I can't access the Windows shares from Linux
> >> (it says the passwords are bad) and I can't see the Linux box at all
> >> from Windows. If someone gets this working, I'll be very curious what
> >> they did.
> >
> > You're not using Ubuntu 9.10 for Samba, are you?  Ubuntu broke samba
> > for 9.10, and apparently hasn't fixed it yet.  Google says I'm not
> > the only one who's seeing this issue, and the problem looks to Windows
> > like a password problem.
> >
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> > Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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