[K12OSN] samba drives/home folder and MS Vista probs

[Sergio Chaves]

>From 
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/75/Microsoft_Vista_With_Linux_Interoperability.pdf

<quote>
The Samba 3.0.23c client code can’t connect
to Windows Vista RC1 (Build 5600). In other words, many client applications 
based on libsmbclient, including the Konqueror K10 slave (smb://), will not 
be able to open Vista shares. But why?
Establishing a connection to a CIFs server is a process with a number of 
steps. After establishing a TCP connection
via port 139 or 445, the client issues the Negotiate
Protocol, Session Setup, and Tree Connect requests in succession. The 
Negotiate Protocol request negotiates the connection parameters, Session 
Setup logs the user on and passes in a password, and Tree Connect tells the 
server which share the client wants to connect to.
This basic approach has remained unchanged since the earliest versions of the 
protocol that date back to the 80s. However, security
requirements directed at the protocol have grown drastically since then. 
Different versions of Windows have responded to demands for more security in 
various ways. Besides authenticating with cleartext passwords, an approach 
that is theoretically still viable, a number of new approaches have been 
added, including LanManager authentication, NTLM v1, and NTLM v2.
With the introduction of Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Microsoft added 
another authentication mechanism that is completely different from all 
previous ones: Kerberos 5. In the process of extending
Kerberos, Microsoft entered into new territory; some of the Internet
RFCs concerning encapsulating Kerberos in other protocols, such as CIFS and 
LDAP, have seen major development since the introduction of Windows
2000.
Samba 3 has always been based on what Windows really does, as Microsoft rarely 
keeps to standards. One of the consequences is that changes to Windows
have often surprised us in the past. In this special case, Microsoft has 
applied the underlying RFCs more strictly than previously with respect to 
Vista compatibility. We need to modify the code to reflect the new 
requirements before Samba-based clients can access Vista shares. 

Volker Lendecke - Samba Developer

</end quote>

On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:41:07 -0500 (CDT), Barry Cisna wrote
>
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I still have not found  a fix for the Vista machines not seeing the Samba
> > users home folder / H: drive:( I've searched the Samba lists/archives
> > mucho.No dice.
>
> Can you mount them with a windows login script?  Something along the lines
> of:
>
> if exist g:\nul net use g: /del
> net use g: \\servername\sharedfolder\jim
>
> or, simply
>
> net use g: \\servername\sharedfolder\jim /persist:yes
>
> It has been a while since I messed with batch files for mounting shares at
> log on but I have had to do this a lot in the past even with all Windows
> domains.  I think this will take variables as well for mounting user home
> folders.



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