Hi everyone. I am sorta a noob with Linux.
I have 3 computers. One running windows XP pro SP3. One running Windows 7 Ultimate and one running OpenSuse 11.2.
I used to have suse 11.1 and samba worked perfectly fine.
Both the windows 7 and XP boxes can browse each other on the network perfectly with no problems.
In 11.2. I can browse the network and I see both the XP and Windows 7 boxes in the list. I can connect to my XP box and see all the shares on it. (I am prompted for a user name and password, I am not sure why, but I put in the credentials and I can connect)
However from 11.2 I try to go to the windows 7 box and I am prompted for a username and password. I have typed it in correctly but won’t let me in and it asks for a username and password again.
I have tried a hundred different settings in windows 7 but still cannot get passed this username and password problems. I have disabled password protected sharing in windows 7. I have disabled the firewall. I am not sure what else to do.
thanks
Oh yeah, I have disabled the firewall on 11.2 as well.
yes, I am having the same issues. I am racking my brain to remember what I did last time this happens. hopefully I can remember…
On Tue April 13 2010 05:56 pm, ghostwind wrote:
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> yes, I am having the same issues. I am racking my brain to remember what
> I did last time this happens. hopefully I can remember…
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ghostwind;
What version of OpenSuse are you using? If 11.2 see the sticky at the top of
this forum by Swerdna.
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/network-internet/436226-fixing-authorization-dialog-bug-samba-11-2-a.html
As Samba 3.5.2 was released earlier this week, following the sticky will lead
you to 3.5.2 rather than 3.5.1. This is not a problem.
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
hey,
I actually figured it out pretty quickly. Seems that Samaba cannot access the password created for the user. I just had to create a samba password, and presto!
Click here for the solution
In case this does not fix everyones issues connecting to Windows 7, you might look at my message here:
Samba SMB file sharing in openSUSE 11.2 - openSUSE Forums
At the end I have the following items in Windows that also need to be checked.
Windows Computer file Sharing:
The intent of this document is to not go over how to share files from a Windows computer. In general file sharing in Windows XP just seems to work with Samba, however you may need to check a few things in Windows Vista and in Windows 7. On the Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine go to:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy
In the application “Local Security Policy” open up “Local Polices” on the Left Tree options and select “Security Options”. On the right look for the setting called “Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level” and double click this setting with your mouse. On the first tab called “Local Security Setting” select the pull down option that says “Send LM and NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”. Hit the Apply button and then the OK button.
On the same “Security Options” page find the options called “Network Security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients” and “Network Security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers. Both should say next to them “No minimum” as its setting. If either security option does not say “No minimum” then double click that option and on the first tab labeled “Local Security Setting” uncheck the options for “Require NTLMv2 session security” and “Require 128-bit encryption” then press Apply and then OK to set the required options
After the above changes I still had an issue with a computer running Windows 7. When I entered my login name and password, it would not be accepted, even though it was correct. After searching the Internet I found the suggestion to uninstall the “Windows Live Sign in Assistant” on the windows 7 system. To do this on the Windows 7 machine select:
Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features
Allow the loaded application Window to populate with all of your applications then find the “Windows Live Sign in Assistant”, highlight it with your mouse and select to “Uninstall” the application. Reboot your computer when done and see if you can not log into your Windows 7 computer. I also found suggestions that a bogus entry in the Credentials Manager, also located in the control panel might show a bad entry coming from your Linux machine that you need to delete. This was not true in my case, but it might be worth a look if your are still having login issues with your Windows 7 computer from Samba.
Thank You,
sorry, mate. I forgot to mention that in my post 
thanks for including this solution in the post. It seems to be a pretty frequent issue between W7 and Samba.