I believe you are doing it correctly yes. I don't think you have enabled firewalls, or stopped any services and i assume everything is green. Let see if anyone else can assist.
I can find tons of threads on how to make Linux see Windows machines in the homegroup network, but I am not having any problem with that; without any hassle whatsoever, I can see and communicate with all of our Windows machines from the Zorin OS machine.
What I cannot do is get the Linux machine...
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I have a workgroup set up with about 10 computers: 6 running windows 7, and 4 running windows XP. This morning out of nowhere, the XP computers can't access the network (network is set up and hosted on Win 7 machine), and the Win 7 computers can't see the XP computers in the network.
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I have 2 machines MACHINE1 and MACHINE2 running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and am trying to map to the D: drive from MACHINE1 machine on to MACHINE2. I enter \\MACHINE1\D$ as the drive address but then it tells me access is denied. The account name and password is the same on both machines (no domain...
I've recently installed some windows 7 machines on our network and they don't seem to be getting valid network configs. It sees the correct DHCP info and DNS servers and you can ping the gateway and other computers on the same subnet but when you try to ping other subnets or out to Google it won't...
So I have a network with 3 computers, a readynas, and multiple network printers.
Two machines have 64 bit RC 1, one has XP.
XP machine can see both Seven machines, and NAS.
64 bit machine one can see everything as well.
64 bit machine two could see everything when I did the first...