Gordon wrote:[color=blue]
>
> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
> news:eYXOOqCSKHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
>> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
>>>> "aa" <a@microsoft.ru> wrote in message
>>>> news:u0YULZo%23JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>>> Nobody forced you to buy that HP
>>>>>
>>>>> Earle, if you read me carefully you will see that I do not complain
>>>>> about
>>>>> HP.
>>>>> My complaint is about MS who forced HP to sell computers with VISTA
>>>>> only.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [url]www.ubuntu.com[/url]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, now I've seen everything, Mike Hall suggesting Ubuntu. :)
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> And not the best time to do it since most Linux has just had it's
>> networking ability (With Windows via Samba) destroyed by the Samba
>> developers, or at least that is what it looks like from here...
>>
>> Supposedly a security issue, but all my Windows (Inc Vista) can see
>> and manipulate the shares on the Linux machines with no trouble, the
>> Linux machines however can't see anything except the workgroup, so the
>> Windows machines are made more secure but the linux machines remain
>> blissfully ignorant of the fact that they are being observed :)
>>[/color]
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 will see XP shares but there seems to be a problem with
> Windows 7......[/color]


If you upgraded to 9.04 did you take the option to keep your Samba
config or did you allow it to be changed? If you did, or you just
installed 9.04 as a new install then I am surprised the Samba (SMB:)
shares can be seen... did you do anything to make that possible and if
so what?