Vista Share network verification problem?

[fossill]

Guys,

I get Vista Business free through my college program. Installed it, everything working fine, but connecting to network shares on my network.

If I add them as "mapped" things 90% of the time connect fine. But if I scroll through my network, and choose to connect to my samba shares that way, still connecting with my normal connection method with username and password, it tells me wrong password. This method worked fine on XP SP2, and every other system I use at the house including an abuntu box, and my girlfriends OS X macbook.

It's just an issue with Vista, has anything experienced this or do you know a fix for it?

I have the correct workgroup set up on my laptop, and every other setting should be fine also. It's something to do in the background or a setting.

Thanks.

[VeeDubbs]

I'm going to bring this thread back alive. I have somewhat of the same problem. Just upgraded my lappy to Vista Business. I have a NAS at home and it worked fine with XP and it is still working as my roommate can connect to it. Vista, however, will not connect to it. When I try to map a drive to it, it will continually ask for my username and password. I am 100% sure I am using the correct password. ANy suggestions? Anyone else run into this problem?

[fossill]

Here's your answer, took me forever...... But it works, all my campus samba connections work, along with my home machines now.

Mario

"If any of you are having problems with Vista logon to NAS devices running Samba, try:

Run secpol.msc

Go to: Local Policies > Security Options


Find "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level"

Change Setting from "Send NTLMv2 response only"
to
"Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated"

Vista defaults to only send the more secure NTLMv2 protocol, which these NAS devices / Samba do not support."

[piako]

Thx for the suggestion fossill. I'm still having a few issues with Vista networking that still makes it unusable. :(

a. My XP boxes cannot connect to Vista Shares. (Tried permissions settings, adjusting secpol.msc as you suggested, plus a bunch of other stuff)

b. My vista Box doesn't work fully connecting over CIFS to my OS X server.

I'm going to try and get the XP --> Vista working first so any ideas are welcome.

P

[VeeDubbs]

Here's your answer, took me forever...... But it works, all my campus samba connections work, along with my home machines now.

Mario

"If any of you are having problems with Vista logon to NAS devices running Samba, try:

Run secpol.msc

Go to: Local Policies > Security Options


Find "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level"

Change Setting from "Send NTLMv2 response only"
to
"Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated"

Vista defaults to only send the more secure NTLMv2 protocol, which these NAS devices / Samba do not support."

Yes!! Thank you so much fossill. I was starting to get very mad. This works!! You just saved me a big headache!!

[piako]

Figured out the XP talking to Vista bit. Had to add the group 'eveyone' to the security tab of the shared object. Now XP can talk to Vista perfectly.

Still have to figure out the OS X Vista stuff. I'm using a piece of software called DAVE to set that up and I think they are behind on their Vista support. Need to remind them to get it going some time next week.

Also mapping the drives of the workgroup using net use x: \\x\x increased the throughput about 65%. =)