How to access Windows 7 PC in Samba network?

12.10 networking windows-7 samba

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Solution 1

If you want to access the Windows 7 computer without a password?

I suggest you disable "Password protected sharing" on the Windows 7 computer, and then specially allow Guest account to access the shared components.

To turn off Password Protected Sharing:

Click Start, enter "Network and Sharing Center" in the Start Search box .
Click "Change advanced sharing settings" in the left pane.
Make sure that "Password protected sharing" is turned off.

Solution 2

You might need to check that "Turn off password protected sharing" is selected under Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network and Sharing Center.

You may also be able to give access to a Guest account on the Windows 7 box for the folders you want to share, and then from Ubuntu just enter the log-in name as Guest.

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João Santana

My name is João Santana, a 30 years old guy who lives in Great Recife, Pernambuco State/Brazil. I have training in Library Science (although I did not graduate) and I'm in the middle of an undergraduate degree in Human Resource Management. Quite nothing to do with Information Technology, in short. Since 2007 I've been using Ubuntu as my operating system, primarily for home use. I became interested in system administration and desktop development over the years, and calls to the support of the companies where I worked halved since then. At the end of 2011 I assumed responsibility for conducting Ubuntu LoCo Team Pernambuco, a task that has been accomplished with the invaluable help of other ubunteros in my state.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

João Santana over 1 year

First of all, sorry for my bad English, as it isn't my primary language.

I have a home network with my Ubuntu box, a Windows XP box (sister's laptop) and a Windows 7 box (mother's PC). Never had a mixed network; with some effort I could install Samba and see the PCs (and be seen for them).

All Windows PCs can access Ubuntu, create and delete files and folders in the shared folders like a charm, and I can do the same with the Windows XP PC. From Ubuntu to Windows 7, however, I can't; a window requesting credentials appears, but there's nothing password-protected accounts in Windows 7. There's just one user account on that computer, without password.

How can I access this computer?
- Admin over 11 years
  
  What Windows 7 are you using? Remember that Windows Starter Edition does not allow sharing!
- João Santana over 11 years
  
  Hopefully isn't WSE. It's a Windows Professional.
NoBugs over 11 years

I have connected to Windows on password-protected share... Are you sure this is the problem?
João Santana over 11 years

It's exactly what I do not want to do. I access the other Windows (XP) computer without having to create an user especifically to this; must have a way to do this with Windows 7.
João Santana over 11 years

Works like a charm!
David Good over 11 years

Windows 7 has very different security features than XP.
João Santana over 11 years

And yet uses the same network infrastructure. Besides, turning off password protected sharing resolved my question. Thank you to share your time, sincerely.