Cant see cifs share on windows 7 x64

[hambone]

I just built a nas out of an old dimension 2400 with 3x 400gb pata drives. I hooked it into the network and configured a raidz and turned on spindown on all the drives. I thought I configured the windows sharing right, but when i go to the network folder in windows 7 home premium 64 bit, It doesnt show anything. (i set up my first network with this server)

I've followed 2 or 3 tutorials and its still not being recognized for me to set up a network drive.


I have very little network experience so could you help a noob?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks

 

[dannyb78]

starting from simple things:
have turned on the cifs service in service cnotrol page?
can you access the nas root folder? (start -> run -> \\192.168.1.2, where 192.168.1.2 is your nas ip)

 

[hambone]

Yes I've turned on cifs, I havnt tried to access he root folder. I can ping it's ip from my laptop and it replies, if that even helps.

 

[hambone]

when I type in the nas ip address, it says the volume label is incorrect.

 

[hambone]

Okay, so it works on my windows xp pro machine but not on my windows 7, so what setting am I missing in windows 7?

 

[dannyb78]

if you share a folder in your xp machine you're abel to access it from win7?