Windows 7 connect to FreeBSD samba

[iamhe]

I'm having trouble connecting my windows 7 machine to my Samba server that i set up on a FreeBSD VM. The FreeBSD version is 7.2 and the samba version is 3.

I followed the directions here mrp3.com/windows-to-unix-samba.html to set it up as a domain controller exactly.. except for adding the samba_dns_update script because i didn't find it being asked for in the config file.

The name of my Windows computer is Pushkin-PC so like it says in the script I added it using adduser and put it under the machines group. I added it as Pushkin-PC$ though.. as the site showed. then I did smbpasswd -a Pushkin-PC$ which also made me make a password.

Then the script said to finalize it by doing the command smbpasswd -m Pushkin-PC$ .. but when I executed that command i got the errors:

Failed to set password for user Pushkin-PC$.
Failed to modify password entry for user Pushkin-PC$.

I couldn't figure out why...

Here's my config file.. all the uncommented parts:

server string = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server
security = user
hosts allow = 192.168.1 192.168.2 127.
load printers = yes
printing = cups
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
passdb backend = tdbsam
include = /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.%m
local master = yes
os level = 33
domain master = yes
preferred master = auto
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-add-user %u
add group script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-add-group %g
add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-add-machine %u
add user to group script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-add-user-group %u %g
delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-rm-user %u
delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-rm-user-group %u %g
delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/smb-rm-group %g

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes

[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /usr/local/lib/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes
writeable = no
share modes = no

[profiles]
path = /usr/local/lib/samba/profiles
browseable = no
guest ok = yes

[printers]
comment =All Pringers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writeable = no
printable = yes


anyways, when try to connect my windows pc (Pushin-PC) to samba.. i do the following command:

\\192.168.198.137\Pushkin-PC$

the ip is the freebsd's ip running samba.

and I get the following error: The network path was not found.

Help?

[RDU]

1.To use samba as a domain controler for Windows 7 client, your need at least release 3.3 and set 2 registry key in windows 7 clients : Windows7 - SambaWiki
2.To add your client computer you have to smbpasswd -a -m xxxxxx
-a for Add ; -m for machine account
3.Then you need to define a USER account (a unix user has to exist, then smbpasswd -a yyyyy)
4.When you access, you need to do \\192.168.198.137\ShareName where sharename is one of the share defined in your smb.conf (at the moment, you have only user defined, so the share name would be the username and it should go to the home directory of this unix user). You can add a new section in smb.conf e.g. to add a common share :
[common]
comment=common documents
path=/data
browseable=yes
writeable=yes

Then create the /data folder with the correct access right.

[HROAdmin26]

The biggest issue I have seen with 2008R2 and Win 7 and Samba connectivity is the fact that MSFT made "use NTLMv2 only" the default for LAN Manager authentication. Setting Win 7 to "Send LM and NTLM - use NTLMv2 if negotiated" usually allows authentication.