Red Squirrel
No Lifer
This seems to be a very common problem as I googled it but yet nobody seems to have an answer. All the posts I found people were just redirected to post elsewhere instead of having their question answered.
I have a basic samba server with a single share, I setup a user account and I can connect to the share using Linux or Windows XP, but in 7 it just keeps rejecting the credentials.
Is there a way to get this to work? This is the share config in Samba:
I created testuser through adduser and smbpasswd and set a password.
I also added "netbios name = servername" on top other than that everything is standard.
I tried using servername\user, localhost\user, [ip]\user, just user (it insists on using the local computer name if I do that). No matter what I try it just wont work.
So this seems to be a windows 7 thing. Anything special I have to do? I know in XP I have to disable "simple file sharing" for certain things to work, is there something similar in 7?
Samba logs are also the most useless thing ever, so no luck troubleshooting at the Linux end, but this seems to be a windows issue since it works fine in Linux.
I have a basic samba server with a single share, I setup a user account and I can connect to the share using Linux or Windows XP, but in 7 it just keeps rejecting the credentials.
Is there a way to get this to work? This is the share config in Samba:
Code:
[raid1]
comment = raid1
path=/volumes/raid1/
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
writable = yes
valid users = testuserI created testuser through adduser and smbpasswd and set a password.
I also added "netbios name = servername" on top other than that everything is standard.
I tried using servername\user, localhost\user, [ip]\user, just user (it insists on using the local computer name if I do that). No matter what I try it just wont work.
So this seems to be a windows 7 thing. Anything special I have to do? I know in XP I have to disable "simple file sharing" for certain things to work, is there something similar in 7?
Samba logs are also the most useless thing ever, so no luck troubleshooting at the Linux end, but this seems to be a windows issue since it works fine in Linux.
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