Prompted for a password when accessing a Windows 7 share

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#1

Hi everyone. I have searched for days on this problem and no one seems to have the fix. Everyone else seems to go off on tangents.

I have 3 computers. One runs XP pro, one runs Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and one runs openSUSE 11.2.

The two windows machines can share files between each other with no problems.

On suse I setup samba correctly. When I go to Computer -> Network on suse, I then go into Samba Shares. Then I see my workgroup name. I click to go in and I can see all 3 of my PC’s listed here.

When I click on my XP pro machine, I am prompted for a user name and password. I put it in and I gain access perfectly.

When I click on my Windows 7 machine, I am prompted for a user name and password. I enter it in and it prompts me again for the user name and password. It will not let me in.

I have changed all of the settings in 7, I have disabled the firewall, I have changed the security policies, I have changed the encryption strength.

Simply Samba is not playing well with Windows 7. I cannot believe that I am the only one with this problem.

How can this be fixed?

thanks

#2

Does the user from Win7 exist in Samba?

#3

Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes, I used.

smbpasswd -a me

and when connecting to windows 7 I am still prompted for a password and nothing works.

#4

On Sun February 14 2010 12:56 pm, karozans wrote:

>
> Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes, I used.
>
> smbpasswd -a me
>
> and when connecting to windows 7 I am still prompted for a password and
> nothing works.
>
karozans;

I wrote this little HOWTO for Windows7 a while back. It’s not formated very
well but has the essentials you need. Never did get back to polishing it.

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/428658-proposed-howto-sharing-windows-7-files.html

P. V.
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