Windows 7 and Samba Issue

Not expecting much from this but i figured i'd throw it out there to see if anyone else has seen it.

I have a Windows 7 machine on my test network here whenever i attempt to connect to a linux based file server on the network it kills samba on the server. The steps go like this:
Start
-search programs....
\\server.domain.com or \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP address fo server)
-Windows 7 can't find server error (even if i run the repair)
Immediately afterwards the samba service on the file server crashes and is non-responsive to other computers on the test network.
My Vista machines don't have this issue.

Anyone else seen this? If not then keep your eyes open if you run into a similar issue.

Besides this i like the new OS.

I also have this problem with the SMB servers on my Linux box, Mac and cheap NAS. This is really make or break for me, if there's no fix, I'm going to be sticking with XP, because it has no problems accessing devices running other OSes.

I actually have Windows 7 working with my Mac OS X 10.4 Server, and my SuSE Samba Server. I used the Vista Hacks on this page to get it to authenticate: http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/ [...] =339270746 And then added
ntlm auth = YES, lanman auth = YES (which without the hack kills the Win 7 Machine from looking), client ntlmv2 auth = yes to my smb.conf. Still trying to get it to join a samba domain.

Well a week later and I'm trying to connect to my Samba share and guess what no dice! Seems I counted my chickens before they hatched! No connectivity from the Windows 7 computer, although the XP virtual machine which is a guess OS inside 7 connects great! Thanks Microsoft!

bingo (post above) that even messes with 2000 server and win98 too

good to know. Thanks for updating the post.

Yep. Same problem here. I read somewhere in the release notes for windows 7 that it does not support workgroups. The homegroup thing is a little unintuitive. I read that you must have a 2008 server running to create a domain that supports active directory for windows 7.

I guess microsoft is back to their unsociable proprietary quest for total control again. I was hoping that it would be a little more interoperable...

I downloaded the Server 2008 from the technet but it comes down as an .exe. (not .iso) So the only way I figure you can install it is over the top of a windows build. (probably vista or XP) I'm betting that they will have the same problem getting companies to go to server 2008 that they are having with the deployment of vista.

7 seems to run faster than vista but this failure to embrace diversity seems to be a little racially biased for me. Same old Bill Gates.

Bill Gates has little to do with MS these days. This is a beta, you cannot possibly expect that something like Samba interopability would be up and running 100%... that's why you have the feedback option. Samba is probably not a high priority at this point, but to suggest they would intentionally break it is Chicken Little-ish. It might even be fixed as of the Release Candidate which is available today.

Anything less would be a PR disaster for MS. They cannot appear to intentionally break anything at this point, because the anti-trust people would be all over them.

Be sure the SAMBA shares on the server are mounted as CIFS volumes.