# Connect to Samba server through Win 7 Starter
Linux @ 17 March 2013
In the past I installed Ubuntu on my wife’s netbook and she was really using it nice. However when she started working she had to switch to the Windows 7 OS in order to use some software in her work place. Then it comes that her laptop can not see my shared files on my Ubuntu PC and notebook. I tried so many things but Win 7 starter really sucks. What I did is taken from the wiki of samba.
run -> regedit
go to
HKey_Local_Machine\System\Current_Control_Set\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters
then add (or change if exists in mine they were absent)
DomainCompatibilityMode = 1 DNSNameResolutionRequired = 0
as double word.
Now I can see my samba shares when I go to \\192.168.0.99 (not the name of my PC)
Hope that helps.
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 will be helpful