[olug] Win 7 and Samba

[Obi-Wan]

> I haven't got it to work yet.
> I set up network shares in Windows 7, and set my workgroup.
> I go to a Linux box, setup Samba just like I normally do with the
> workgroup, and passwords. I can't access the Windows shares from Linux
> (it says the passwords are bad) and I can't see the Linux box at all
> from Windows. If someone gets this working, I'll be very curious what
> they did.

You're not using Ubuntu 9.10 for Samba, are you?  Ubuntu broke samba
for 9.10, and apparently hasn't fixed it yet.  Google says I'm not
the only one who's seeing this issue, and the problem looks to Windows
like a password problem.

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Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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