[olug] Connecting Windows7 Home Premium to SAMBA

[Kelly Williams]

Are any other computers on the network able to see the files on samba..



On 7/16/2011 12:00 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
> Samba is capable of the same encryption that Windows is, so there is
> no reason to change security settings on windows.  By default, Windows
> 7 uses NTLMv2 but you need to enable that in the smb.conf.  i disable
> and refuse NTLMv1 and below.  i think the easiest way to find out the
> exact settings available is using the web based package samba-swat
> (Samba Web Administration Tool).   In addition, there were updates to
> samba to make it work with Windows 7, did not seem to matter if an MS
> Active Directory joined Win7 machine or not.
>
> Enabling guest access seems to allow anyone to do anything (rwx) on
> your file share.
>
> yum install samba-swat (on redhat)
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