In the local network, we have a samba share that doesn’t require a password. Most computers can access this share without any trouble. For some reason a new machine running Windows 7 Professional can’t access it without seeing a login box. Seems there are a lot of people who’ve had this or similar issues, and a lot of potential solutions.
Change made based on this page: In the Local Security Policy, Security Options, change “Network security: LAN Manager authentication level” (new setting: Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated)
Change made based on this page: In the Local Security Policy, Security Options, change “Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications (always)” (new setting: Disabled)
Change made based on this page: In the Local Security Policy, Security Options, change “Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients” to “No minimum”
I tried a bunch of things including these above – one of them must’ve fixed it but the password box was still popping up; finally i entered ‘x’ as the username and ‘x’ as the password, miraculously it decided to let me in, whereas if I tried leaving it blank, it wouldn’t let me in. Possibly rebooting might have avoided that trouble? What a pain! But now I’m in, ahhhh.