Win7 to Win7 SMB Issue
So the issue I have is when using SMB Shares over a local LAN. I have two accounts setup for a "server" machine, Everyone has Read Access, and I gave an admin account full control. When I browse to the share from another Win7 computer I can read and iterate the directory just fine, but I can't copy and files TO it. (obviously I'm logged in as anonymous) This wouldn't be that big a deal if it asked for credentials, however, it doesn't, it just keeps reapeting I don't have the proper permissions... Is there an easy fix so that I can tell Win7 to mount the SMB share as the priveldeged account instead of the everyone account?
May 6th, 2009 3:21am

I haven't played with your exact scenario yet but I am going to in the next few days since I am intrested in this type of bug and networking happens to be one of those things I love to play with. Anyways, in the meantime you may want to utilize the "Map Network Drive" to allow you to specify logon credentials to a share. This will force Windows 7 to use the specified credentials when mapping the network drive.Have you tried other OS types with this network you have currently? Do other PCs who do not share the same username/password as the admin account on the "server" have any issues?
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May 6th, 2009 8:24am

My problem looks a bit different. When trying to access SMB shares (which I can access without any problem using windows2000 or windows2003) from Windows 7, a pop window is opened ("Enter Network Password") I can specify my credentials (in "use another account"). However authentication always fail. I cannot access the smb logs, but from what I see on the windows box, it seems that Windows7 is always using the hostname as the domain, and prefixing the username with the domain, i.e. "HOST\username". Could this be the cause the authentication failure ? And if yes, is there a way to not use any domain in the credentials ? For info, I had the same problem when using "Map Network Drive" feature, instead of specifying the network path directly in the explorer.
May 6th, 2009 1:47pm

I've actually found a solution which consists of installing the NFS client (form the windows features) and directly mount the NFS filesystem. This seems to work great so far.
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May 6th, 2009 6:08pm

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