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Windows 7 not able to connect to network shares

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superboyac:
probably unrelated....
i had a hard time getting network computers to show up on a win10 machine recently.  problem turned out that windows now disables smb so you dont see network computers in the network neighborhood.  but if you type the address directly or the ip it still works.  so sounds different than your problem.  it was also reported as being a win10 problem.

Shades:
SMBv1 should be disabled, as it has become very unsafe to use.

Not every computer/network configuration likes that though. Expect trouble with older versions of Linux trying to communicate Windows 7 or vice versa. Can be fixed by upgrading network drivers and/or enabling SMBv2, or even better SMBv3, if the network equipment in your systems has support for that. Not a given with built-in network cards on not that modern motherboards or el cheapo NICs you might have added.

Instructions on how to (temporarily) re-enable the SMBv1 protocol can be found at this link. The instructions are for Windows 10, but the method is valid for most, if not all, versions of Windows.

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