[ubuntu-uk] accessing Windows 7 shares

[Gordon]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>   
> Sorry, forgot that bit... it's Windows 7 Home Premium, fresh install on 
> a blank hard drive.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
So that blows my "version-specific" theory out of the water.
I wonder WHY my 9.10 won't access any shares on my 7 Home premium box? 
(As yours, a clean install on a blank HDD...) All I get is an endless 
log-in dialog loop....