I am having trouble accessing shared files on my windows 7 machine from my linux box (ubuntu 9.04).
I have set up a file to be shared on windows 7, force 128 encryption is turned off, firewall is turned off, username not required (although i have set up a account specific for sharing to make sure this isn't the problem) and permissions are set up.
However, i cannot access this file on my linux box.
I have attempted to access this file by clicking "Places > Connect to Server", select Windows Share, entered my computer name OR ip address for the windows 7 computer for the server field, and tried typing in the folder name that is shared on the folder field.
When i hit ok it brings up a screen that asks for a username and password. I have tried everything here i can think of, the specific sharing account that i made, an administrator account, and no account, but none of them are working. It just brings me back to the username, domain, password box again.
Any ideas on why this is happening? I think it is a windows 7 specific problem (i have seen others with the same problem who claimed that it worked just fine on xp/vista but not on win7) but i will test this tomorrow on a windows server 2003 machine and verify this.
I have set up a file to be shared on windows 7, force 128 encryption is turned off, firewall is turned off, username not required (although i have set up a account specific for sharing to make sure this isn't the problem) and permissions are set up.
However, i cannot access this file on my linux box.
I have attempted to access this file by clicking "Places > Connect to Server", select Windows Share, entered my computer name OR ip address for the windows 7 computer for the server field, and tried typing in the folder name that is shared on the folder field.
When i hit ok it brings up a screen that asks for a username and password. I have tried everything here i can think of, the specific sharing account that i made, an administrator account, and no account, but none of them are working. It just brings me back to the username, domain, password box again.
Any ideas on why this is happening? I think it is a windows 7 specific problem (i have seen others with the same problem who claimed that it worked just fine on xp/vista but not on win7) but i will test this tomorrow on a windows server 2003 machine and verify this.