Vista and Samba?

Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. According to a Google search Samba doesn’t support this yet.

Although this won’t matter to many Samba users right now, it’s good to know for the future. It’s a very simple fix, so you may want to bookmark this one.