You know, just out of curiosity, have you guys put your ip and
servername in the windows hosts file? If you aren't using a name
server, that might help.
Just a thought!
Jack
On 05/ 5/10 09:52 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
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
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