Answers to: Accessing Win 7 Drives From Linuxhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/1414/accessing-win-7-drives-from-linux<p>I have a network of mostly Win XP machines, and one Win 7 Ultimate. I'm gradually converting all of them to dual-boot Ubuntu. Simple file-sharing in XP is turned off. All of the Windows machines are networked and mapped to each other.</p> <p>I can see the XP machines from Ubuntu using Places->Network, and can access them. I can see the Win 7 machine, but cannot access it.</p> <p>Also, I haven't found the Ubuntu equivalent of Windows' Map Network Drive.</p> <p>Thanks in advance for the help!</p>enFri, 12 Nov 2010 20:57:18 -0500Answer by BigJohnLhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/1414/accessing-win-7-drives-from-linux/1435<p>Thanks for the response.</p> <p>None of the drives on any machine are encrypted.</p>BigJohnLFri, 12 Nov 2010 20:57:18 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1414/accessing-win-7-drives-from-linux/1435Answer by Ronhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/1414/accessing-win-7-drives-from-linux/1427<p><strong>I have a network of mostly Win XP machines, and one Win 7 Ultimate. I'm gradually converting all of them to dual-boot Ubuntu. Simple file-sharing in XP is turned off. All of the Windows machines are networked and mapped to each other.</strong></p> <p>Is the Windows 7 Ultimate PC using file system/hard drive encryption such as Bitlocker? Linux can read NTFS drives. <em>(but to write to NTFS drives, you'll need to install ntfs-config or ntfs-3g, I forget which is the correct name of the program.)</em></p> <p><strong>I can see the XP machines from Ubuntu using Places->Network, and can access them. I can see the Win 7 machine, but cannot access it.</strong></p> <p>Is the Windows 7 Ultimate PC using file system/hard drive encryption such as Bitlocker?</p> <p><strong>Also, I haven't found the Ubuntu equivalent of Windows' Map Network Drive.</strong></p> <p>Samba</p> <p>Search for Samba in the software center. Also, gadmin tools has a very nice Samaba config front-end as well.</p>RonTue, 09 Nov 2010 15:16:30 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1414/accessing-win-7-drives-from-linux/1427