"Please verify your user details" when trying to access a Windows 7 share

[Robert Myers]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Running Windows 7 in a virtual machine, I shared a folder, publically. I
> told Windows to share it with "Everyone".
>
> Back in Fedora, I choose "Connect to server" option in the "Computer" window
> from the Gnome desktop, change the type to "Windows share", and enter the
> Win 7 VM's IP address.
>
> Hitting "Continue" always comes back with a "Please verify your user
> details" warning/message, with my Linux account's name in "User name", and
> "MYGROUP" for the domain name.
>
> I tried fiddling with some of this stuff, changing the domain to "WORKGROUP"
> (what Win 7 shows its domain to be), specifying my account name's for the
> user name (even though I shared the folder with "Everyone"), explicitly
> putting "Users" as the share's name (the share's name, as shown in Win7),
> etc…, without much luck.
>
> Looking for ideas where to look, and how to troubleshoot this.
>

The best approach to resolving Samba mysteries with Windows 7 at this
point might be to wait for the release of Samba4:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4


Robert.