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[solved] samba + windows vista + sme7.4

Offline wires

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Re: [solved] samba + windows vista + sme7.4
« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2009, 07:05:28 PM »
thank you

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Re: [solved] samba + windows vista + sme7.4
« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2009, 07:08:11 PM »
It would be nice if you posted your solution so that others may learn from your experience.

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Re: samba + windows vista + sme7.4
« Reply #32 on: April 11, 2009, 12:11:59 AM »
why? lol...



i am now running a fresh installation of windows xp and it works, i later found that the problem was that i had unabled : NetBios over TCP/IP....reason why i couldnt see SME7 server . something to do with name resolution or i am off track here..

that's the solution. enable netbios over tcp/ip

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Re: samba + windows vista + sme7.4
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2009, 01:50:49 AM »
I had trouble with vista as well, connecting it to the server. I found I had to change a registry key in vista.
Cheers to you Bloke !
another fix from the great SME community members!
(what is sooo annoying is the Win98, WinXP, and now Vista have had a similar problem of password encryption!