* Tim (xendistar@???) wrote:
>
> Since upgrading to mepis 7 (debian based) my vista box has not been able to
> access the samba shares (4 folders on an external USB hd connected to the
> mepis PC formatted to vfat32) when I reboot the same PC into Mepis 6.5
> (unbuntu based) my vista PC can access the aforementioned share with out a
> problem (I also have the same problem with the XP boxes).
>
> When I setup mepis 7 I simply copied the smb.conf from 6.5 to 7 but nothing
> seems to work. I have been on line and there is a lot of info regarding vista
> running NTLMv2 authentication which they suggest running secpol.msc and
> change the security policy. Unfortunately the "Home editions" of vista don't
> come with a policy editior so I found a site which gave the registry key to
> hack, but again this made no difference.
Acording to your first paragraph, the shares work with Mepis 6.5 but
not 7. Does this not indicate that the problem is with Mepis and not
with Vista?
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Philip Stubbs
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