[Samba] windows 7 cannot connect

[Anders Norrbring]

Robert Adkins II skrev 2011-08-10 14:28:
>
> No, you do not need to turn off all of that on Windows 7. I have had no
> issues with connecting 7 different Windows 7 Professional workstations into
> my network. Most of the systems here are running Windows XP Professional and
> are joined to the domain.
>
> The only issue that I have had is joining the Windows 7 systems into the
> domain. I understand that it might be possible, but I haven't had the time
> to really dig into that.
>
> There might be some authentication elements within smb.conf to adjust to
> allow the Windows 7 systems to authenticate users on the network, but I may
> have made those adjustments quite some time ago in order to allow Windows
> 95, 98, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 to all join the domain in their various
> ways.
>
> All you need is to have the Windows 7 machines in the workgroup of the
> Domain or the workgroup, then create individual user accounts on the Windows
> 7 machines that mirror the account user IDs and passwords on the Samba
> server.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Adkins II
>

Robert, it's easy to join a samba domain, here's how..
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7

Anders


>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Carter
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:51 PM
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect
>>
>> On 08/09/2011 01:42 PM, Marc Fromm wrote:
>>> I just set up my first windows 7 desktop.
>> My condolences.
>>
>>>    When I try to map a drive to the red hat linux samba
>> share it complains that the "server cannot perform the
>> requested operation." Windows XP machines work with no problem.
>> First, I would remove all security contexts from the Windows 7
>> workstation.  Turn the firewall off.   Turn off your virus
>> software/security software.
>>
>> Try again.
>>> The linux samba information:
>>> [root at finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep smb
>>> pam_smb-1.1.7-7.2.1
>>> libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>>> gnome-vfs2-smb-2.16.2-8.el5
>>>
>>> [root at finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep samba
>>> samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>>> samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>>> samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>>> system-config-samba-1.2.41-5.el5
>>>
>>>
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