problems with vista and samba shares
November 9, 2007
My Dad has just bought a new laptop with windows vista ultimate installed, and he also has a NAS device installed on his home network. The device works fine with Windows XP or Lower. The problems came when he tried accessing a share with Windows Vista, it just locked the computer up and didn’t let you access the data. This then needed ending the EXPLORER task in windows and starting it back up again. After hours of searching on the internet for a solution I came across this easy guaranteed solution. Here is what it told me to do.
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Maintenance
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Double-Click Local Security Policy
6. In the left pane, click the triangle next to Local Policy
7. In the left pane, click Security Options
8. In the right pane near the bottom, double-click “Network security: LAN manager authentication level”
9. Click the drop-down box, and click “Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”
10. Click OK
