[clug] Ubuntu Hardy access to Vista shares
Duncan Bolt
Duncan.Bolt at anu.edu.au
Mon May 26 07:06:40 GMT 2008
I think if you poke around a bit more you will find a registry patch to
do it.
http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-vista/50823-force-ntlm-vista-home-premium.html
Change "lmcompatibilitylevel" in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
to dword:00000001
I know that was how I did it once.
Duncan
Ian Bardsley wrote:
> Boyd
>
> Many thanks for your prompt response
>
> You were spot on. A little more googling located a thread that
> provided a potential solution that called for a change in Vistas
> "Local Policy, Security settings". That shouldn't be too hard I
> thought, the thread provided a simple how to that involved accessing
> the Vista file "secpol.msc". Guess what???, this file is not
> provided with Vista Home editions so if you have purchased a copy of
> Vista home xxx or a computer with it already installed and want to
> share data with another OS you will need to pay yet again to upgrade
> to ultimate or whatever. That of course is after you've paid
> additionally for software that will protect you from miscreants who
> delight in finding ways to upset your day by implanting rogue code
> into your nice new computer that renders it akin to a boat anchor.
>
> Now I could buy an upgrade or I could simply dump Vista from my 120mb
> HD and used the saved space for more important things. I'll leave you
> to guess what I shall do this evening. I shall also be making a
> financial donation to the developers of the linux software that I use
> regularly to the value of the savings that I will make by dumping this
> stuff.
>
> Many thanks again for your input. I like to know why things don't
> work as expected.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Ian Bardsley
>
> CC Bill Gates and Staff
>
> Boyd Wilding wrote:
>> Whoops sorry, I meant NTLM2.
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Boyd Wilding <boydwilding at gmail.com
>> <mailto:boydwilding at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I believe that Vista has SMB 2 enabled by default which may
>> potentially be the cause of your problem.
>>
>> From memory it also stops its shares being available to older
>> windows versions that try to connect to shares on a Vista machine
>> (eg windows XP) unless you change a setting on the Vista machine
>> to allow use of SMB 1.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Ian Bardsley <ifb777 at tpg.com.au
>> <mailto:ifb777 at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>> G'Day List members
>>
>> Having spent some time googling around for an explanation to
>> no avail, I thought I would seek the collective help of the
>> lists' gurus for an explanation of why I am unable to view
>> shared folders in Vista with Ubuntu while viewing Ubuntu
>> folders in Vista is no problem.
>>
>> The scenario: When I acquired my new notebook a few weeks
>> ago(and commented on in these pages) it naturally come with
>> Vista installed. As I had never looked at this OS, I decided
>> that I would set this device as a duel boot system with a view
>> to poking around in Vista before I dumped it in favour of a
>> completely Linux based home network. Over the past couple of
>> evenings I have looked at Vista and must say am less than
>> impressed with it's offerings finding it cumbersome, slow and
>> fragile. However, as I have never tried to use samba to share
>> between operating systems I embarked on yet another learning
>> curve and figured out how to set up shares in Vista and also
>> in Ubuntu. I am now at the point where I can, via "Places,
>> Network" navigate to Windows Network, Workgroup and Laptop
>> (the name used when setting up Vista) but when trying to get
>> to the next stage nothing happens. I found a number of
>> threads on the net where other users have reported similar
>> problems but alas no explanations of why or any offerings of a
>> solution. This of course now become a challenge....something
>> that should happen isn't happening and I need to know why
>> otherwise i'll turn to drink or worse. So, any input would be
>> very much appreciated.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Ian Bardsley :-(
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>>
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