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    • 15th July 2011 at 17:18 #44055
      Raikes

        Greetings,

        First, thanks for a great product. I’ve been using Ubuntu on this system for awhile and finding the OEM project here has been a godsend.

        I do have a question though. I’m certain it’s been answered before but none of my forum searches seem to have yielded an answer that seems to match my problem.

        I have this computer connected to a LAN at work. There is a system with a network drive which I am attempting to connect to. In windows explorer, I click on network and can see the computer to which I am attempting to connect. When I try to open it, I get: “\XXXX is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the admin of the server to find out if you have access permissions. Logon failure: account currently disabled.”

        The drive I’m trying to connect to is a W7 drive and I haven’t had to add a user to it on any other computer I’ve tried to connect to it (I’m the “admin” for lack of a better term).

        Any thoughts/help would be appreciated.

        Once again, thanks for a great product

      • 15th July 2011 at 19:13 #50820
        halladayrules

          Windows Server 2008 R2 uses the built-in Guest account to authenticate anonymously to network shares. By default the guest account is disabled. To enable the guest account, do the following:

          Click Start and in search field type “Guest”
          Click “Turn guest account on or off”
          Click on Guest account
          Click on Turn On

          You should now be able to connect to a Windows Server 2008 R2 share from your Linux box provided the correct samba permissions have been set up. You may need to restart to apply changes.

        • 15th July 2011 at 19:13 #60639
          Anonymous

            Windows Server 2008 R2 uses the built-in Guest account to authenticate anonymously to network shares. By default the guest account is disabled. To enable the guest account, do the following:

            Click Start and in search field type “Guest”
            Click “Turn guest account on or off”
            Click on Guest account
            Click on Turn On

            You should now be able to connect to a Windows Server 2008 R2 share from your Linux box provided the correct samba permissions have been set up. You may need to restart to apply changes.

          • 18th July 2011 at 15:26 #50821
            Raikes

              Thanks for the response halladay. I tried that when I got to work this morning but to no avail. Also, just to clarify, I’m attempting to connect my 2008 workstation to a windows 7 network share..

              Any other thoughts? It’s not a huge deal if I can’t get it to connect. Just a bit of a pain in the butt.

            • 18th July 2011 at 15:26 #60640
              Anonymous

                Thanks for the response halladay. I tried that when I got to work this morning but to no avail. Also, just to clarify, I’m attempting to connect my 2008 workstation to a windows 7 network share..

                Any other thoughts? It’s not a huge deal if I can’t get it to connect. Just a bit of a pain in the butt.

              • 24th July 2011 at 02:59 #50822
                halladayrules

                  @Raikes wrote:

                  Thanks for the response halladay. I tried that when I got to work this morning but to no avail. Also, just to clarify, I’m attempting to connect my 2008 workstation to a windows 7 network share..

                  Any other thoughts? It’s not a huge deal if I can’t get it to connect. Just a bit of a pain in the butt.

                  It is a permissions issue, most likely with NTFS. Are you trying to share the USER folder of the windows 7 machine (for example C:UsersRaikes) If so that might be the reason why you are receiving the “You might not have permission to use this network resource” message. You can give the “Everyone” group read-only access to see if this resolves your problem.

                  Make sure you are physically at the Windows 7 machine. Now locate the folder that you are trying to share.

                  Right-click on it and choose Properties.

                  Click on the Security tab.

                  Click Edit…

                  Click Add…

                  Type “everyone” and click OK.

                  Now try to access the Windows 7 network share from your 2008 workstation box.

                • 24th July 2011 at 02:59 #60641
                  Anonymous

                    @Raikes wrote:

                    Thanks for the response halladay. I tried that when I got to work this morning but to no avail. Also, just to clarify, I’m attempting to connect my 2008 workstation to a windows 7 network share..

                    Any other thoughts? It’s not a huge deal if I can’t get it to connect. Just a bit of a pain in the butt.

                    It is a permissions issue, most likely with NTFS. Are you trying to share the USER folder of the windows 7 machine (for example C:UsersRaikes) If so that might be the reason why you are receiving the “You might not have permission to use this network resource” message. You can give the “Everyone” group read-only access to see if this resolves your problem.

                    Make sure you are physically at the Windows 7 machine. Now locate the folder that you are trying to share.

                    Right-click on it and choose Properties.

                    Click on the Security tab.

                    Click Edit…

                    Click Add…

                    Type “everyone” and click OK.

                    Now try to access the Windows 7 network share from your 2008 workstation box.

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