Samba and Windows7 authentication

[Boomn4x4]

Just got a new laptop with windows7 on it... I have an Ubuntu computer that I use as a host and share a few directories and a printer with the rest of my home network. Before my XP laptop worked great....but now I cannot get my Windows7 laptop to connect to any of my shares. I try to map and it asks for my username and password over and over again, and I know they are right.

I have been doing some searching, and I did find that Windows7 requires a registery edit.... to which I did. But I am still unable to map to the shares.

My smb.conf file is below.

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = office-desktop
workgroup = BEATTYLAN

[homes]
guest ok = no
read only = no

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
create mode = 0700
guest only = yes
use client driver = yes


[MyPictures]
path = /media/SecondaryHD/
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = michael
force group = michael

[OfficeDocuments]
path = /home/michael/Documents/
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = michael
force group = michael

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Any help would be appreciated.

[Paul-ypc]

I have windows 7 connected to samba shares with no registry edits required.

All I had to do was make sure the windows 7 machine was in the same workgroup as my samba shares and it just worked.

[henrikau]

It has something to do with new access-rights in win7.

The following article from NTNUs it-support has solved my issues in the past: IT-Info: Problem with map network drive using Windows 7

[qatqat]

Hi,

similar solution to the one i posted for centos.
Standard samba authentication is user based so before connecting any user you need to add it as smb user:

smbpasswd -a username

and follow the prompt.

Cheers
QatQat