On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:28:08 +0200 Public Mailing Lists <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I just bought a brand new PC for my living room (Asus eee Box) that > happens to come with Windows 7. I can nicely plug in large USB hard > drives, any my intention was to share these harddrives on the network, > for example with my old Windows 98 PC on which I still run some > favorite computer games. And of course, I would also like to access > the large harddrive occasionally from my linux box (e.g. to put > backups on them). > > However, I had to learn that Windows 7 does not want to share my > harddrive with the other computer on the network that are not Windows > 7. All tried all different kinds of things: I switched off the "home > group", I switched off various encryption/security settings in the > control panel. I even changed some registry settings that I googled > from the web. All without success. I spare you the technical details > on this... > > I can't understand why it has to be so hard to just export a simple > harddisk on the network. With every single version upgrade of Windows, > it breaks. From Windows 95 to Windows 98. From Windows 98 to Windows > XP. And now with Windows 7, again. IMHO, the purpose of networking is > to COMMUNICATE with whichever protocol is out there. > > I don't want to deal with neither Windows domain controllers, nor home > groups, nor roaming profiles, nor encryption requirements, nor > anything that Windows will come up with in the next release that > breaks everything else. I would like just export a hard disk with a > user-name and a password and use it with everything from Windows 3.1 > to my Linux box without getting a headache. > > So, my question is: > Is it possible to run Samba on top of Windows? > > Thanks for your help in advance. > > Cheers, > G. > > No answer, I'm afraid but a similar problem. My wife's laptop died and the new one came with Windows 7. The old one had Vista on it and I had it set up so that she could access her account on my F11 box and I could run BackupPC to back up her laptop on my computer. With Windows 7, I can't even get it to "see" my Linux box although pinging to my IP address works fine. According to what documentation I could find, Windows only wants to network with other Windows boxes. I did find a reference on a forum to something about Linux not doing DNS correctly but that probably means not doing it the non-standard Windows way. I'll be interested in any answers you get. Good luck, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
