How to make Samba Server Acceptable on Vista
For samba administrator who has vistas on their clients, it’s sometimes painful to make both of them (vista and samba) working peacefully. The vista won’t connect to samba. This is because Vista default policy is not allowing samba authentication.
To overcome this problem so that vista can access samba, you could do these steps:
- Open run window (by clicking Win button + R) and execute secpol.msc
- Click the Continue button.
- Open Local Policies > Security Options.
- Open the Network security: LAN Manager authentication level.
- Change to LM and NTLM - use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated.
- Restart your Vista.
January 2nd, 2008 05:21
You may also use the next generation of samba, just visit http://news.samba.org/releases/3.0.23d
January 2nd, 2008 05:23
Well, samba is damn great. It’s free and open source. I hope samba can support vista and vice versa