Comment 4 for bug 208531

Steve,

Thanks, your suggestion fixed my problem connecting to the private share, although the correct syntax is "client lanman auth = yes". The bizarre behavior I reported when connecting through the network browser to the public share SD_MMC_c still exists, however.

I probably should have Read The Fine Man page for smb.conf before posting, but grepping for lanman in smb.conf on both 8.04 beta and Fedora 8 produced no result and I gave up prematurely.

May I suggest that the smb.conf file in the final version of 8.04 should at least contain the appropriate line, commented out, with explanatory notation such as:
# Older servers may not support the higher level of default security for
# password negotiation and may require uncommenting the following line.
; client lanman auth = yes

Adding those lines to smb.conf is not very helpful for live CD boot, however, since the command line would need to be uncommented each time it is started, presuming no persistence. And if the default were changed for live CD boot only, it would fail after installation. This may be a case of shooting ourselves in the foot. We want people to try Ubuntu, but when they do they may not be able to connect to existing Windows or samba shares. Their response is likely to be "doesn't work, I don't want to deal with it". This seems a classic example of technical correctness overcoming intelligent marketing.

Mike