Windows 7 is pissing me off!

[WonderBread]

So here's my issue. I have three computers. Laptop w/ Vista Home Premium, Desktop #1 Windows 7 Home Premium, and Desktop #2 Windows 7 Ultimate.



I'm trying to get drives and folders shared across the network and I'm running into a brick wall with one of them. From the Vist to Ultimate and Ultimate to Vista I can access all files that are shared including the public folder. From 7 Home premium I can get to the other two computers just fine. But when I try to access 7 Home from the other two computers I cannot access it, not even the public folder. I am given the error:

"Windows cannot access \\Office

Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose."

then in the show details I have the
"Error code: 0x80070005
Access is denied"

All the configurations are the same in the advanced network configuration settings. All permissions have been set accordingly and I have no freakin clue what it is. The only thing different from the computers is on desktop 1 where I removed the windows media player "features" from the windows programs and features (i have a pet peeve against WMP). I've since put WMP back on the system but no luck.

Please help. I'll answer any additional questions needed. Thanks!

[chrisbard]

1. check rights
2. if you have no login/pass create a login name and a pass then authenticate yourself from the other computers using that login/pass.

[Rondog]

AFAIK chrisbard is correct. Username password needs to be created.

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by Rondog

AFAIK chrisbard is always correct. Username password needs to be created.

TY mate !!!

[WonderBread]

But before I had reinstalled 7 home I didn't have a login/pass created for the other computers. And if thats the case why doesn't my 7 Ultimate machine need a login/pass?

[booman]

passwords are usually a big deal in sharing files, remote desktop, etc.
Also, is the Windows 7 machine on a "homegroup" or "workgroup"?
I'm not sure if Vista has a "homegroup" but there is a difference. They need to be on the same network name... I think thats what it is called. Let us know because I have heard some strange things about Win 7 and networking

[robbie]

SMB sharing in Win7 64 bit is a huge pain in the butt!! We are having all kinds of trouble with it at work, as this is how the copiers are doing scanning. (usually)

I have a couple of walkthrough's I'll have to upload.

[booman]

that would be GREAT!
I have SMB working with Linux-to-Windows XP/Vista but not Windows 7.
So I'm curious how it works

[WonderBread]

All machines are on the same workgroup. No homegroups are set up because I'm having issues connecting the two Win7 computers to the homegroup. Regardless of the password set my the homegroup wizard or by my self it tells me that the password is incorrect from the machine trying to connect to the computer hosting the homegroup.

[booman]

I don't have windows 7 so its hard for me to give advice but......

Have you pinged the machine to make sure it all connected?
Try configuring a static IP address on that machine, ping it, then try connecting with that IP address instead of computer name:

\\192.168.111.15

or whatever you set the static IP as

[WonderBread]

set static IP. Ping times out, but I can ping the other computers from the problem one.

[chrisbard]

Security issue i presume. Check the rights on that connection!
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

[WonderBread]

how so?

[booman]

Make sure the firewall is off. That can block a ping.

[WonderBread]

firewall off, I can pig, but still can't access files on the network...

[booman]

thats out of my realm with Windows 7.
Try creating a NEW shared library.
I don't know much about libraries, but you may want to do some research

[Samuknow]

I think home versions are not so network friendly. Make sure you enable sharing in the network and sharing center.

[dsio]

Originally Posted by Samuknow

I think home versions are not so network friendly. Make sure you enable sharing in the network and sharing center.

Thankfully all versions of Linux are network friendly =)

[booman]

Originally Posted by dsio

Thankfully all versions of Linux are network friendly =)

except for being friendly to windows. I had to setup a config file for smb and create users, ip address, host and then turn off firewall & SE LInux

[dsio]

Originally Posted by booman

except for being friendly to windows. I had to setup a config file for smb and create users, ip address, host and then turn off firewall & SE LInux

There's an easy way around that, don't be friendly to Windows =D