[Dark_Stang]

Has anybody figured out a way to access vista shares and vista shared printers from a Linux machine?

[Dark_Stang]

Okay... I've got it now...

Step 1: On vista machine. Go to your network and sharing center. Turn on network sharing. You have the option to turn on password protection as well if you'd like.

Step 2: Open your registry on the vista machine. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l
Now make the Value of LMCompatibility 1, instead of 3.
Reboot the machine.

Step 3: Now go to the linux machine.
Manual Mount with Password:
sudo mount -t smbfs //VISTA-PC/public /path/to/desired/folder -o username=user,password=pass,iocharset=utf8

Manual Mount without Password:
sudo mount -t smbfs //VISTA-PC/public /path/to/desired/folder -o iocharset=utf8

Editing fstab for automount with password:
Open /etc/fstab with root privileges and add a line like the following (change it to fit your needs, obviously)
//vista-pc/public /folder/to/mount/to smbfs username=user,password=pass,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Editing fstab for automount without password:
Open /etc/fstab with root privileges and add a line like the following (change it to fit your needs, obviously)
//vista-pc/public /folder/to/mount/to smbfs iocharset=utf8 0 0


Once mounted you should be able to setup printer sharing for the linux machine as well.

[usamamuneeb]

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