cannot access vista, but vista can access my suse 11.1

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like the title says,

vista sees and can do whatever with my home directory, but suse 11.1 cannot even see vista. My two other vista machines can talk to each other with no problem.

attached is my smb.conf settings

Samba config file created using SWAT

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Date: 2008/12/26 14:09:48

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = HP
security = SHARE
map to guest = Bad User
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
printcap name = cups
usershare allow guests = Yes
cups options = raw
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf

[home]
comment = home folders
path = /home/dad
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

any help is creatly appreciated

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I have never tried security = share with getting into vista. Try commenting that line out (with a hash #) and reboot to restart Samba and see if any diff (just a vague thought – vista is a bit more security conscious that xp).

Then if no go you might try it with the Suse firewall temporarily off just to diagnose if it’s a firewall problem.

Then if that’s no good you could try adding these lines into [global]
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 33
Each time you restart Samba (or reboot to restart Samba) you could reboot the vista machine in question too, just to make them chat a bit.

3

PS what are you using to β€œsee vista” from openSUSE plus which version of openSUSE r u using?

4

I think I agree about this one security = share maybe test without it. I do not have this set and I am Vista to version 11. I haven’t updated to 11.1 but I imagine not much has changed in the way of Samba

5

11.1 and vista work for me fine using settings carried over from 10.3 & 11.0 – except for a bug in the SuSEfirewall2 for letting samba through – for which I describe a workaround here: Opening Samba ports in the Firewall in openSUSE 11.1 - openSUSE Forums