Forum:Win7 shares problem

Hi all –

I have upgraded from Vista to Win7 Enterprise. Now the ScreenPlay Pro box does not see the network shares on that machine. The shares from other machines on the home network (Vista home preumiums) are all OK with the SP Pro box; all Win machines on the network do see and can access the Win7 share in question.

1.      I did read the posts (here and elsewhere) and diligently went through all recommendations on enabling permissions, security policies, registry edits etc. No effect.

2.      Same problem with MVIX 760 – PC shares from Win7 machine are not shown. Note that both ScreenPlay and MVIX are Linux based. I assume therefore that there is some deep dislike between Win7 and whatever (Samba?) mounts Windows shares on the SP side.

3. Another hypothesis would be a major divergence between how Enterprise and Non-enterprise editions do networking in Windows 7.

I don’t have a Linux box available and I also reluctant to do the telent hack on the SP box (as I likely will end up returning it), so I can’t really play much with options. Anybody has any ideas?

Thanks.
 * Yes, I recall seeing that Microsoft loves to change the SMB stuff all of the time so it wouldn't surprise me if we needed a Samba update to get it to play with Windows 7. However, since Iomega has said that the ScreenPlay Pro works with Windows 7, maybe you ought to post your question on their sticky thread in their main forum, asking if they tested the network connection and if any special settings are required. --JCoug 18:16, October 27, 2009 (UTC)