Tips and tricks: Why does connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Samba servers no longer work from Windows Vista clients after installing Service Pack 1?

This Red Hat Knowledgebase article applies to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® versions 4 and 5.

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.

Solution

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Update 7 and version 5 Update 2 will include Samba version 3.0.28, which addresses these interoperability issues and others seen with prior Samba versions.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 customers experiencing significant impact to their operations involving Samba servers and Windows Vista clients after installation of Windows Vista SP1 are encouraged to contact Red Hat Global Support if a solution is required before the next update release.

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