problems connecting ubuntu smb client to windows 7 server

[jordanthompson]

Hi all, I am trying to connect my ubuntu 10.10 client to my windows 7 file/print server. I can browse to my windows network via places->network. I can see my windows servers. When I double click on them, I am prompted with username, domain, and password. After I enter these, I am continually prompted for my password. I know that I have my username/domain/password correct (I use them from other windows machines to connect.)

I have also tried to connect to a server with the following:
server: 192.168.1.5
share: Media (I know this exists with the appropriate capitalization)
folder: <blank>
user name: jordan
domain name: THOMPCO
(prompts for a password later, and I enter my password on the server)

Here is what I get from nmblookup:

jordan@surfer:~$ nmblookup -A 192.168.1.5
Looking up status of 192.168.1.5
	ANDREA          <00> -         B <ACTIVE> 
	THOMPCO         <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
	ANDREA          <20> -         B <ACTIVE> 
	THOMPCO         <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 

	MAC Address = 00-24-8C-63-5C-BA

jordan@surfer:~$ nmblookup andrea
querying andrea on 172.16.158.255
querying andrea on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.5 andrea<00>
192.168.112.1 andrea<00>
192.168.171.1 andrea<00>

I made this fix on the windows 7 box (and rebooted it):
http://ttcshelbyville.wordpress.com/...os-over-tcpip/

I tried this also:

jordan@surfer:~$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.5 -Ujordan% -WTHOMPCO
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[THOMPCO] OS=[Windows 7 Professional 7600] Server=[Windows 7 Professional 6.1]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
session request to 192.168.1.5 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
NetBIOS over TCP disabled -- no workgroup available

Any help would be MOST welcome
Jordan

[jordanthompson]

[jordanthompson]

[HermanAB]

Howdy,

In my experience, the error messages returned by a Windows server tell you exactly what is wrong, if you can just figure out what exactly they mean...

Anonymous login successful:
Why does the Windows machine think you are logging in as Anonymous?

NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED:
Anonymous does not have permission to access the share.

Sooooooo....
Are you sure that your user name is jordan and not JORDAN or Jordan or some such?


See this:
http://www.aeronetworks.ca/howtos/Li...Directory.html

Note that Ubuntu ships with Likewise, which you can use instead of Samba winbind in the above howto.

[Mark Phelps]

Windows 7 is NOT a server OS, and in my own experience, is the WRONG OS to try to force into that role.

XP machines COULD be used as file servers (I am doing that myself) because they were a lot more flexible in permissions.

Win7, in contrast, has tightened up permissions so much that it is extremely hard to get it to function as a file server.

If you really want a file server, you would do better either (1) going back to XP, of (2) using a REAL server OS.

[jordanthompson]

Hi Herman,
thanks very much for your reply.

I am trying to connect to a windows 7 business machine that happens to be sharing some directories and printers. I am not trying to connect to a specialized server of any kind.

I tried all of the combinations of my username I could think of, as you suggested. I still get the same results.

I didn't think that Windows usernames and domains were case sensitive, but they may be on the unix side, for some reason.

If it is a clue, when I remote desktop to this machine, I need to use the machine name (andrea) instead of the workgroup name (thompco) for the domain. Of course I have tried this

Thanks for your help,
Jordan

[jordanthompson]

Sorry - looks like we doubled.

Unfortunately, that is what I have. I may eventually change it to be an Ubuntu server, but I need to get my feet a lot more wet with this first

Windows 7 is fulfilling its role nicely for the other windows clients that communicate with it for now. So it is what it is for now.

Are you saying that it is impossible for Ubuntu to communicate with Windows 7 in this fashion?