Comments on: Windows 7 Network File Sharing Fix

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:56 +0000

@Bob

Each edition of Windows 7 is a little bit different. Windows 7 Home Premium doesn’t have the advanced management options that professional does, so you may not be able to use this work around with your current version of Windows 7 Home Premium.

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:12:34 +0000

@Jarvis
Sorry, out of luck!

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:13:04 +0000

What is a “SOL” ?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:40:20 +0000

My laptop is running Windows 7 Home Premium. I can see and read all files on my SuSe Linux Professional 9.0 desktop from Windows but cannot access Windows from Linux machine although the Linux machine can see the Windows 7 machine but is refused access.
I tried your fix but when I search for “Local Security Policy” in Windows 7 it is not found, so I am stuck. Everything displays as in your search screenshot except Local Security Policy. Can you help me bring it up?

By: J. Healey

J. Healey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:09:48 +0000

Thank you for writing this article. I was not able to follow your work very far. For example:

This ‘Local Security Settings’ window (Your second image) on the top left side shows the Security Settings | Account Policies | Local Policies |. Click Local Policies and Security Options appears. The right side of that image shows the top line as : Policy – Security Setting. That does not exist in my computer and the almost all the other entries below it are different from mine. Your line below that image is:

‘From here, under the policy browser select and open “Network security:Minimum session security for NTLM SSP (including RPC based) Clients“.’

In the context of the image above, this makes no sense at all to me.

TIA

By: Sarjon Isaac

Sarjon Isaac — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:09:38 +0000

Hello and thank you,

I figured if I waited some smart person will post something and the resolution for this sharing issue. I too was excited with Microsoft Windows 7 and then only to get disappointed with the failure to access shares on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server platform. I tried researching to see if anything was published but nothing was until today. I found your link and decided to follow it and all the instructions. Now my access to the Microsoft Windows 2000 shares works! Oh yeah! I didn’t have time to get in to trouble-shooting it because I found a way to live around the problem, and it is called FTP :) This makes my life much easier.

Cheers!

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:42:11 +0000

This solved us a big big problem. Thanks for taking your time to write and post this very useful information.

By: Horqua

Horqua — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:07:05 +0000

Applying these recommendations, I can easily access the shares and view contents of folders on Samba. My problem appears when I want to paste a group of files from SMB share to Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The behavior is, one file will paste, then the system hangs and no other files pasted until it times out and the message: “Problem accessing the share. Make sure you’re connected to the network and try again” appears. “Try again” has no effect. If I open another Explorer window and point to the share folder where the files to be copied live, the folder reports empty and the process bar sweeps madly. Once I cancel the procedure, I have to use Task Mgr to cancel the Explorer instance because it continues to be stuck.

This behavior began within the previous week. I’m guessing an Microsoft Windows 7 update has taken place within that time period.

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:40:09 +0000

This solved a huge problem with my new laptop users running Microsoft Windows 7 and trying to connect to shared folders on both an NT Server and a Windows 2000 server. You have saved my life. Thank you!

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:10:03 +0000

@Yajra

Check out LogMeIn.com. Their service will let you connect and control to up to 5 computers for free that you setup with their service.