[ubuntu-uk] accessing Windows 7 shares

[Gordon]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>> This may be anecdotal or not!
>> I cannot access any Windows Home Premium shares from my 9.10 Netbook.
>> However, I am in correspondence with someone who CAN access shares 
>> (including Admin shares) on Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL from 9.10
>> Can anyone else who might have access to either Windows 7 Home Premium 
>> or Professional confirm or refute this?
>>   
> I can't access the admin shares (C$, D$ etc) on the wife's PC running 
> Windows 7 from my laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 (haven't tried it from XP 
> yet so I don't know if it's something to do with changes to Windows 7), 
> but I can access shares I have created myself.  So for instance if I 
> share my User folder on Windows, I can access it from Ubuntu 9.10.
> 
> What I have done is set the share permissions so that my user on the PC 
> can connect to the share with full control.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

And what version of 7 are you running?