Mapping a Raspberry Pi hard drive directory as a local Windows 7 drive

[Guest David L Harper]

I have a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB hard drive that is used for data logging and I need to be able to access the log files from a program running on Windows 7. The easiest way to do this would be to map the log files directory as a local Windows drive. I have samba installed and running on the Pi and everything appears to be running correctly as I can mount the directory as a remote drive on a Windows XP system with no problems. Using Windows 7, however, I always get the message "The specified network password is not correct". Searching for information on this typically leads me to the Local Security Policy settings for Network Security. Based on the information I've found, I have the "LAN Manager authentication level" set to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated". This doesn't seem to make any difference though. The computer name of the Raspberry Pi is "mds6v2Development" and I am using the default user name and password (pi / raspberry). From the XP system I open the "Map network drive" window and set the remote folder to "\\192.168.0.23\logs" which is the share name for the folder containing the files I need to access. The user name is "mds6v2Development/pi" and the password is "raspberry". This connects every time from the XP system with no problems. The same thing in Windows 7 always gets the incorrect password message. Others have successfully done what I'm trying to do so there must be something in one of my settings somewhere that is preventing authentication but I have no idea on what else to check. Any suggestions on what to try next would be GREATLY appreciated - right now I'm burning far too much time trying to solve what I thought would be a relatively easy issue.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

 

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