Windows 7, Mapped Drives and Samba

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Hi,

A quick question, i hope!

Using the latest version of SuSE with Samba setup with UserName and PassWord protection enabled are there any issues getting Win7 computers to create a Mapped Drive to this network location and loggin as required when prompted for a UserName and PassWord.

Mark

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On Thu November 19 2009 08:16 am, akwe-xavante wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> A quick question, i hope!
>
> Using the latest version of SuSE with Samba setup with UserName and
> PassWord protection enabled are there any issues getting Win7 computers
> to create a Mapped Drive to this network location and loggin as required
> when prompted for a UserName and PassWord.
>
> Mark
>
>
akwe-xavante;

Earlier this week I set up a Windows 7 machine on the Samba domain (Samba
version 3.3.9) and their was no problem using network services (yet). Did not
try mapping a drive. Point & click printing worked fine as did file access.
I assume 11.2 has the 3.4.x branch, which is suppose to be even more Windows
7 friendly.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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