Samba and Vista

[Tyler Aviss]

According to what I've been told, Vista home and Basic are pretty much
neutered in regards to connecting with Samba shares. Are you running
machines with "Home," if so it can apparently require a bit of hacking
to get it to work...

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:42 AM, E K <ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>  --- William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>  > I have to get my Debian box to host some files for a bunch of Vista
>  > boxes at work, and I am not having any success.  Does someone have
>  > a
>  > smb.conf that they could post to help me out.  I would ideally be
>  > able
>  > to prompt the Vista machine for a password and then put up files,
>  > but I
>  > am not having any luck.  Thanks.
>  > --
>  >
>  > yours,
>  >
>  > William
>
>  I don't think Vista needs anything special than Windows XP or Win2K
>  unless you want AD setup. I hooked Vista when I got it onto the samba
>  domain for windows 98/2k/XP and it is worked just fine. I had always
>  access control glitch (windows is not able to see the Linux groups).
>  But that is not a new issue with Vista.
>
>  EK
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
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