[CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

[me at tdiehl.org]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Ron Young wrote:

> I just installed win 7 pro @home in order to be more compatible with
> my new @work environment.  I am likewise having a problem with samba
> shares.  The samba shares are on a C5.7 server and were readily
> available from the same machine running XP for the last couple of
> years.
>
> The new w7pro install is on the same network as the previous XP
> install on that machine and in fact has the same IP address as the
> former XP os.
>
> Now with the fresh install of w7pro I cannot see any of the samba
> shares from the w7pro machine.  All of the googled solutions I have
> found so far have not worked.  I have added a couple of entries to the
> smb.conf that were suggested and restarted smb but no joy.
>
> Anyone have pointers that may get me going again?

Have you seen this: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7

In particular the registry on w7 needs modification in order to join.

I have numerous w7 machines in a couple of smb domains working as advertised.

Hope this helps.

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