Problem with samba and sharing it with windows vista machines

ravi.xolve · 02-26-2009, 09:23 AM

My friends on local LAN use windows Vista. I use Kubuntu 8.10.

I installed samba 3.2.3 on my machine and created the following smb.conf file:

Code:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = Ravi
security = share

[data]
comment = Music
path = /media/sda3/Music
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

I configured their local network turned on file sharing on their PCs from "network and sharing center" in control panel.

When I went to Start -> Network I couldn't find my machine listed there. I googled and found that Vista uses NTLM authentication and I need to change Vista's settings to LM and NTLN from secpol.msc .
But this article says different about the newer versions of Samba: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=236

Then, on windows vista pc I click on "map network drive" in my computer and create a drive M: with the folder path as

\\<ip of my linux machine>\data\

But it won't find my share and give an error.

Also I can't see Vista's shares on my computer. Please help me.

carlmarshall · 03-02-2009, 11:40 AM

Try adding this to smb.conf [global]

lanman auth = yes
ntlm auth = yes
client NTLMv2 = yes
client lanman auth = yes
client plaintext = no

This will disable plain text but allow LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2.

Carl.

ravi.xolve · 03-05-2009, 02:55 AM

smbclient -L <my host's ip>

gives the error

Code:

Unknown parameter encountered: "client NTLMv2"
Ignoring unknown parameter "client NTLMv2"
Unknown parameter encountered: "client plaintext"
Ignoring unknown parameter "client plaintext"

jschiwal · 03-05-2009, 03:10 AM

Does Vista allow the share level security model? It's Windows 95 technology. You might need "map to guest = Bad User" in global and change your security model to "security = user".

Also make sure that these ports are open:
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds