Windows7 & Samba Shares
November 7th, 2009
I recently upgraded a machine to Windows7 and was unable to see mount any of the network Samba shares (from an Ubuntu server). After a bit of Googling I found this fix…
- Open Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools
- Launch Local Security Policy
- Select Local Policies->Security Options
- Find the ‘Network security: LAN Manager authentication level’ entry & click to change
- Change the dropdown to ‘Send LM & NTLM responses’ & OK
- Find the ‘Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients’ & click to change
- Ensure both options are not checked
That should do it, go back to the network area in explorer and refresh to see your Samba shares again (hopefully).
So far not overly impressed by Windows7, it’s shiny and boots/shuts-down quicker than old Windows (no where near as fast as OSX though, about the same as Ubuntu9.10) but under the hood it still seems as clunky as ever, and there’s dialogues that obviously haven’t changed since XP (e.g. joining a workgroup).
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