Connect to Windows Shares?
Posted: 25 Feb 2012, 09:41
Last weekend I was replacing an antique PC with a brand new Win7 laptop. What I was going to do was copy the whole old PC to a folder on the new one using Porteus. The idea of using Porteus is that Windows locks some of its own files and they don't then copy. The target machine was a Win7 laptop. On the Win7 laptop I had a share which the old WinXP machine could connect to without a password. I successfully copied over one partition WinXP -> Win7, so the share works. I then booted the old laptop off Porteus (1.0 as it would not do a USB boot where I had 1.1). Try how I might I could not connect to the WinXP box, or, at least, every time I tried to connect I was prompted for a username and password. Since there were none required this always failed. I also tried the user name of the Win7 user (password not required) and I failed again. I tried Guest, I temporarily set a password on the user account and so on and I failed every time.
Typically I was trying to connect with smb://192.168.10.100/OldLaptop, either through the remote places or directly in konquerer. I also tried using samba shares but this failed for another reason (something not running). Was I doing anything wrong? How can I connect to a Win7 share?
Typically I was trying to connect with smb://192.168.10.100/OldLaptop, either through the remote places or directly in konquerer. I also tried using samba shares but this failed for another reason (something not running). Was I doing anything wrong? How can I connect to a Win7 share?