Samba frustrations

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM,  <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a samba server on lucid (kubuntu) and connect to it
> (mostly) from a win7 machine. The win7 machine and server are both in the
> same workgroup.
> The problem is that the server is not displayed in the win7 networking page.
> As a matter of fact, when I attach another kubuntu machine to the network,
> smbclient doesn't see the server either.  So I assume something is wrong
> with the server config.
> The smb.conf file is
here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-September/227600.html

What' the output of
pdbedit -Lw
and
smbclient -L //127.0.0.1
on the Ubuntu server?