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.... The symptom was that Windows kept asking for the IPC$ password. Linux clients have no problem with the Ubuntu Samba server. My machine is called "mydesk", and on every Linux box in the house, the following did what they were supposed to: smbclient -NL mydesk smbclient //mydesk/tmp -Uslitt I opened ports 137, 138, 139 and 445 to both udp and tcp, no change on the Windows box. I set the firewall (temporarily) to passs all, no change on the Windows box. I installed Mandriva 2008.1 on an experimental machine, created a tiny Samba with a share for /tmp, and verified that the same Wi...