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I can't get Raspbmc to browse my shared folders on my Windows 7 computer that is in the same network. When trying to add a networklocation, I get 'connection timed out'
Things I have tried:
- I deleted all the workgroups in the network.
- I've set my network type to 'home network'
- I've opened up all the setting under 'change advanced sharing settings' both under 'public' and 'home or work'
- I shared a folder on my Windows 7 computer via -> share with -> specific people -> everyone
- I installed the latest nightly build
- I executed 'sudo apt-get install samba' in the terminal, witch stated the latest version of samba was already installed
- I am able to ping the pc with the shared folder from the pi.
- Tried turning off windows firewall
- I've tried making windows users and filling in those credentials when connecting
I have a second computer also running windows 7, XBMC on this pc is able to see my shared folder. I'm fairly technical but really inexperienced with Linux, is there something that I am missing?
Also don't know if this is related but i cant connect via putty, I get 'connection refused'
kevinsky50
Posted 2013-02-25T22:12:16.860
Reputation: 53
Could you try to connect from your Raspberry Pi via the command line to Windows? You could do this in 2 steps, first list the available shares and then connect to it. 1. List shares:
smbclient -L "\\<windows-hostname>" -U "<workgroup>\username"you can skip the-U ...if you do not need a user. 2. Connect:smbclient "\\<windows-hostname>\<share-name>" -U "<workgroup>\username"you can also skip the-U ...if you do not need a user. What are the outputs or error messages? – Huygens – 2013-03-07T09:13:07.610Can't connect to WHAT from WHERE via putty? Please be more specific. – jnovack – 2013-04-05T13:55:31.947