[GRLUG] Get Vista and Samba to work

[Tim Schmidt]

On 12/16/06, Godwin <geektoyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746
>
> Can anyone confirm that Vista does NOT talk to samba servers
> out-of-the-box?  Just today, in fact, I setup build 5840 on vmware and
> was able to map a network drive to Samba 3.0.21c-1 which I compiled
> ages ago and setup as a PDC.  A quick authentication login later, I
> was reading/writing files normally.  Anyone else?

Haven't tested Vista, but even XP, 2k, and 2k3 can get themselves into
the situation Vista supposedly ships with by default...  NTLMv2-only
auth.  The fix, just as with Vista, is to switch to NTLMv2 + LM.

--tim