Windows 7 cannot access samba shares
Hi, Based on my research, please try the following: 1. Please enter gpedit.msc in the Start Search box. 2. Navigate to Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Settings. 3. In the right panel, please change the following policy: Network security: LAN Manager authentication level Change the value to Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated. 4. Please search Advanced sharing settings in Control Panel, click Manage advanced sharing settings and expand Home or Work. In the File Sharing connections section, please choose Enable file sharing for devices that use 40- or 56-bit encryption. Now, please test the issue again and see how it works. Hope this helps. Jeremy Wu TechNet Community Support
August 31st, 2012 1:03am

I actually came across those solutions before on a few other forums but neither solved the problem for me. Thank you for the advice none-the-less.
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August 31st, 2012 2:29am

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Based on the current situation, Im afraid that we may have to use Network Monitor to troubleshoot the issue. Regards. Jeremy Wu TechNet Community Support
August 31st, 2012 2:41am

1. You should lower the authentication level to cover samba. 2. Use network monitor to catch the traffic. Rgds Milos
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August 31st, 2012 5:30pm

I have three samba shares on a linux machine that I want to access with a windows 7 machine. The windows 7 machine can "see" the linux machine and enumerates the shares fine, however when I click to open them I get an error message stating... Windows cannot access \\COMPUTER\Share You do not have permission to access \\COMPUTER\Share. Please contact your network administrator to request access. Some useful information... 1- Neither host has any sort of firewall running 2- Windows XP computers can view the shares just fine 3- The hosts are in the same workgroup 4- telnetting to ports 139/445 from the win7 host to the linux host gives a connection (i.e. this is not a network issue) 5- Windows Media Center IS able to open the shares and view the files 6- I have already tried every registry modification Google could find 7- IPv6 and SMBv2 are both disabled 8- The troubleshooting utility states "Your user account doesn't have permission to access \\COMPUTER\Share" 9- The shares on the linux machine are on an NTFS drive which initially made me think it was a filesystem permission issue, however (see #5), it works there Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. I'm running out of hair to pull out.
August 31st, 2012 10:10pm

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