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12/6/2010 6:40:00 AM EDT
Ok, this is driving me a little batty.  My wife has a laptop with Win 7 home premium and in my quest to get her machine and mine (running Ubuntu 10.10) i am hitting a bit of a wall.  One of the suggestions I came across suggested creating a new share by clicking 'start', right clicking 'computer', selecting 'manage', right clicking 'shares', and selecting 'new share'. Seems pretty straightforward, however, when i right click 'shares' the only option i get is 'help'.  no other actions are offered.  My question is, is this a feature in this version of 7 that is disabled?  Or is it user error?

Also, has anyone successfully gotten a Win 7 machine to play nice with Ubuntu?  It seems that Win 7 really likes to kill Samba.
12/6/2010 7:40:07 AM EDT
[#1]
Are you trying to create a share on her win 7 system?

You can do that in Win 7 Home Premium by right clicking on the drive or folder you want to share, then click on sharing/advanced sharing or properties/sharing/advanced sharing.

Make sure you do that with an admin accnt.

You should be able to see that share in linux if you are on the same subnet.
12/6/2010 7:42:35 AM EDT
[#2]
That is exactly what i am doing.  I'll give it a whirl.  Figured i was making it more difficult than it needed to be.

12/6/2010 4:46:21 PM EDT
[#3]
will windows 7 home actually let you share anything other that the pre-canned public (ie all-users folder) folders shares?