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  1. #1
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    Vista Home Premium and Samba

    Yesterday I upgraded both desktops from Xp to Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate RC1. Until I was with XP, there was no problem connecting my Samba shares but since yesterday after installing Vista, none of these systems are able to connect Samba anymore.

    I tried searching web for the same and found that it can be fixed by change the NTLMv2 authentication in the security policies. Well I did the same successfully on Vista Ultimate and problem is solved. But there is no such thing on my Vista Home Premium.

    How can I fix this (Home Premium) laptop? Any advice please?

  2. #2
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    Re: Vista Home Premium and Samba

    That’s correct. There is no such registry key in Home Premium edition of Vista because due to some reason Microsoft itself haven’t included Local Security Policies in any of the Home versions.

    So you need to find out some another way.

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    Re: Vista Home Premium and Samba

    Just try out these steps.
    • Click Start, type regedit, Hit Enter.
    • In the left, expand the following folder:
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Lsa
    • Now on the right side, double-click "LmCompatibilityLevel"
    • Change its value to 1.
    • Close registry and reboot the system.

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    Thanks!!!

    I had given up on Vista during Beta testing because I couldn't find any help in connecting to my Clarkconnect NAS box. I could see the box, the shared folder, but personal folders were unavailable.

    Not having secpol.msc available in Vista Home Premium was going to mean I was going to have to rebuild my NAS with another OS.

    With your regedit, I am now able to see my individual folders. Thank YOU!!!

    One issue, I can't log into the NAS share without typing in the computer name/workgroup that I belong to along with the share name(example:Computer-Name.MSHOME\username). It is NOT a big problem and thanks for not making me rebuild my NAS box!!!

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    An Incredible Help

    Jimmy, TAHNK YOU SO MUCH. It's been an incredible help. I was looking around for a hint on this issue since March. THANK !YOU!. I can access my NAS again. You do not have idea what this means...........!!!!!!!!! GREAT.

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    Vista Home and Samba

    I've tried this and it's not working so far :(

    Any suggestions?

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    Tried IP address of samba server

    After many unsuccessfull attempts with regedit (as that would solve all my problems!), I managed to connect to my linux-based samba server from Vista Home Premium by entering the IP address of the server instead of the name.

    I guess I have something non-configured on the server...

    So, I just map the drive normally, but instead of \\servername\sharename
    I use \\a.b.c.d\sharename where a.b.c.d is the ipaddress.

    Good luck!

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    Re: Vista Home Premium and Samba

    I have been trying to access my folders on my linux server from my vista home premium laptop forever with no luck. I applied this registry edit and I was able to see everything and have full access now. Thank you very much for posting it. What does changing the number to 1 actually do? I am curious. Thanks again Jimmy

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