As gas boiler is going on the blink I have been forced to use electricity for hot water (at 47.5 to 52.5 degrees). Not as environmentally sound as gas heating but hopefully it will not be for long.

Windows 7 cannot access Linux Samba Network

Oh how I hate Windows 7 and Networking. Every now and then I find I cannot access a Linux machine runing Samba on my home network.

This time the symptoms were Windows 7 asking for a username and password from the Windows 7 domain to logon to the Linux-Samba PC. of course Samba does not like the Windows 7 domain credentials!

It took hours to track down the problem and fix it. Somehow, best know to Windows 7, it had created an entry in the Windows Vault for the connection to Linux Samba. To remove it from the vault, go to Control Panel -> Credential Manager and then remove the offending entry from Windows Credentials. As soon as I did that I could connect to my Linux Samba PC and access all the shares.