Debian 5.05 & Samba

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Please help me out guys, I've been searching forums all afternoon.

I haven't used Linux in a long time but decided to give it a go on my notebook, so far I've gotten everything to work, just one thing bugs me, I can't access my Windows 7 shares which are password protected.

Could somebody more experienced post what I am expected to type to access my shares and then I can post the error message or response I get.
 
Does not work, I am using Debian 5.05 AMD64. Now the only thing holding me back is the ability to connect to smb shares. Without that the system is horribly pointless as I do not store much data on the actual notebook and rely on servers.
 
what jeanres posted should work (at least in KDE) but without the spaces on either side of the colon. I suspect he/she added them to avoid the inevitable smileyfication.
 
The problem doesn't seem to entirely lie with Samba as it accessed Windows XP shares easily through the gnome "Connect to server" panel.
Windows 7 shares simply stop with an error.

I therefore tried mount.cifs //PC-NAME/Folder /mnt/folder -o username=user,password=usrpsswd
It then comes back with mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
 
koffiejunkie said:
I don't have Windows, so I can't test it myself. This looks similar though: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-869994.html
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well spotted, I read that one earlier today, thing is, even if that works it's hardly a cure as I cannot go modifying registries on every computer I want to connect to :) But I've posted this on linuxquestions and waiting for a reply on either end, I really would like to use Debian on my notebook, even though I'm perfectally happy with Windows Vista, and bought Windows 7, it's more an interest and something I can learn from.
 
FIXED:

http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/windows-7-nonpaged-pool-srv-error-2017
"Apparently you need to tell Windows that you want to use the machine as a file server and that it should allocate resources accordingly. Set the following registry key to ‘1′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

and set the following registry key to ‘3′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size"

Although far from ideal, will test on other machines, hope the problem isn't universal with all Windows 7 PC's
 
smbmount doesn't work either, after "Fixing" it, I can only have one folder mount at a time as then it gives permission denied error.
 
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