Since installing Service Pack 1 on our Windows Vista clients, we can no longer access our Red Hat Enterprise Linux Samba servers from these clients. What is the problem and how can we solve it?
Issue
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduced additional authentication principals and differences in the methods used to encode and decode packets between peers as default behavior. The result is that Windows Vista clients cannot properly authenticate or access shares on Samba servers of versions prior to 3.0.28 once SP1 has been installed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 4 and 5
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