ive just installed ubuntu on a laptop and trying to set up my network so can move documents from win 7 to ubuntu and back, as well as set up my printer which is on win 7.
ive done this before but for the life in me cant remember how i managed it

any help appreciated

Do you mean connecting to a Windows machine on a LAN using samba perhaps?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sa...mbaClientGuide

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sorted, thanks for the help

ive managed to get part way to solving this. i can access ubuntu from my win7 pc but cant access win7 from ubuntu
and i cant get ubuntu to see the win7 printer
ive got cups installed but cant find the printer
ive given permission in windows firewall etc
and followed a few online posts on howto set it up via samba
any help appreciated

What is reported from Ubuntu with smbclient?

john@Inspiron:~$ smbclient -L <Win7 JOHN-PC>
bash: Win7: No such file or directory
john@Inspiron:~$

i can see the windows pc in network but get this error when try open it
unable to access location
failed to retrieve share from server. connection timed out

Hope you didn't execute that literally. You replace what I illustrated with the actual computer name. Assuming that it is JOHN-PC then do

john@Inspiron:~$ smbclient -L JOHN-PC
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Enter john's password:
Connection to JOHN-PC failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)
john@Inspiron:~$



PING JOHN-PC (81.200.64.50) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=25.3 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=28.9 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=22.6 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=22.3 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=22.7 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=22.4 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=22.4 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=22.4 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=24.2 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=10 ttl=53 time=23.8 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=11 ttl=53 time=22.6 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=12 ttl=53 time=22.1 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=13 ttl=53 time=22.3 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): icmp_seq=14 ttl=53 time=23.1 ms
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (81.200.64.50): i

Supply your smb.conf. This could well be a SMB protocol version issue. You could run the following...

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to...linux-or-unix/

john@Inspiron:~$ testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Processing section "[public]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

# Global parameters
[global]
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
server role = standalone server
map to guest = Bad User
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
dns proxy = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
idmap config * : backend = tdb


[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No


[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers


[public]
comment = public share, no need to enter username and password
path = /src/public/
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
john@Inspiron:~$

Check the firewall on the Ubuntu machine as well.

Looks like windows cannot be seen from your linux. Either nothing is shared or blocked by a firewall (or something similar).

JOHN-PC is not being resolved to a LAN IP address. Replace JOHN-PC with the actual IP address of the Win 7 PC.

replaced JOHN-PC with IP and get

ohn@Inspiron:~$ smbclient -L 86.24.242.47
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Enter john's password:
Connection to 86.24.242.47 failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)
john@Inspiron:~$

turned firewall of and get
Connection to JOHN-PC failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)
john@Inspiron:~$