Hi all, I just bought a brand new PC for my living room (Asus eee Box) that happens to come with Windows 7. I can nicely plug in large USB hard drives, any my intention was to share these harddrives on the network, for example with my old Windows 98 PC on which I still run some favorite computer games. And of course, I would also like to access the large harddrive occasionally from my linux box (e.g. to put backups on them). However, I had to learn that Windows 7 does not want to share my harddrive with the other computer on the network that are not Windows 7. All tried all different kinds of things: I switched off the "home group", I switched off various encryption/security settings in the control panel. I even changed some registry settings that I googled from the web. All without success. I spare you the technical details on this... I can't understand why it has to be so hard to just export a simple harddisk on the network. With every single version upgrade of Windows, it breaks. From Windows 95 to Windows 98. From Windows 98 to Windows XP. And now with Windows 7, again. IMHO, the purpose of networking is to COMMUNICATE with whichever protocol is out there. I don't want to deal with neither Windows domain controllers, nor home groups, nor roaming profiles, nor encryption requirements, nor anything that Windows will come up with in the next release that breaks everything else. I would like just export a hard disk with a user-name and a password and use it with everything from Windows 3.1 to my Linux box without getting a headache. So, my question is: Is it possible to run Samba on top of Windows? Thanks for your help in advance. Cheers, G.
On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:28:08 +0200 Public Mailing Lists <lists at lists.cichon.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I just bought a brand new PC for my living room (Asus eee Box) that > happens to come with Windows 7. I can nicely plug in large USB hard > drives, any my intention was to share these harddrives on the network, > for example with my old Windows 98 PC on which I still run some > favorite computer games. And of course, I would also like to access > the large harddrive occasionally from my linux box (e.g. to put > backups on them). > > However, I had to learn that Windows 7 does not want to share my > harddrive with the other computer on the network that are not Windows > 7. All tried all different kinds of things: I switched off the "home > group", I switched off various encryption/security settings in the > control panel. I even changed some registry settings that I googled > from the web. All without success. I spare you the technical details > on this... > > I can't understand why it has to be so hard to just export a simple > harddisk on the network. With every single version upgrade of Windows, > it breaks. From Windows 95 to Windows 98. From Windows 98 to Windows > XP. And now with Windows 7, again. IMHO, the purpose of networking is > to COMMUNICATE with whichever protocol is out there. > > I don't want to deal with neither Windows domain controllers, nor home > groups, nor roaming profiles, nor encryption requirements, nor > anything that Windows will come up with in the next release that > breaks everything else. I would like just export a hard disk with a > user-name and a password and use it with everything from Windows 3.1 > to my Linux box without getting a headache. > > So, my question is: > Is it possible to run Samba on top of Windows? > > Thanks for your help in advance. > > Cheers, > G. > >No answer, I'm afraid but a similar problem. My wife's laptop died and the new one came with Windows 7. The old one had Vista on it and I had it set up so that she could access her account on my F11 box and I could run BackupPC to back up her laptop on my computer. With Windows 7, I can't even get it to "see" my Linux box although pinging to my IP address works fine. According to what documentation I could find, Windows only wants to network with other Windows boxes. I did find a reference on a forum to something about Linux not doing DNS correctly but that probably means not doing it the non-standard Windows way. I'll be interested in any answers you get. Good luck, Steve
you turned off simple file sharing on the windows 7 host and enabled windows file sharing on the windows firewall ? -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 5 May 2010 16:28, Public Mailing Lists <lists at lists.cichon.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I just bought a brand new PC for my living room (Asus eee Box) that > happens to come with Windows 7. I can nicely plug in large USB hard > drives, any my intention was to share these harddrives on the network, > for example with my old Windows 98 PC on which I still run some favorite > computer games. And of course, I would also like to access the large > harddrive occasionally from my linux box (e.g. to put backups on them). > > However, I had to learn that Windows 7 does not want to share my > harddrive with the other computer on the network that are not Windows 7. > All tried all different kinds of things: I switched off the "home > group", I switched off various encryption/security settings in the > control panel. I even changed some registry settings that I googled from > the web. All without success. I spare you the technical details on this... > > I can't understand why it has to be so hard to just export a simple > harddisk on the network. With every single version upgrade of Windows, > it breaks. From Windows 95 to Windows 98. From Windows 98 to Windows XP. > And now with Windows 7, again. IMHO, the purpose of networking is to > COMMUNICATE with whichever protocol is out there. > > I don't want to deal with neither Windows domain controllers, nor home > groups, nor roaming profiles, nor encryption requirements, nor anything > that Windows will come up with in the next release that breaks > everything else. I would like just export a hard disk with a user-name > and a password and use it with everything from Windows 3.1 to my Linux > box without getting a headache. > > So, my question is: > Is it possible to run Samba on top of Windows? > > Thanks for your help in advance. > > Cheers, > G. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: ?https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >