File sharing problem between Windows 7 & Lion

I have almost the same problem. Called to Apple and stay for about 1h and 40min over the phone. What a shame, tried everything and the problem persists. But suddenly, without any racional explanation, I gain access to macs folders. Ok, but not at all. I am able to open Illustrator, image files like PSD or JPG, but can't open .max or office files. Everything is fine when I work from the mac. The problem is when I work on the PCs (XP and 7) and try access files on mac/Lion. Probably will go back to Snow.

Will follow this thread, maybe somebody helps...

I am having the same problem. Have been searching the web for a solution, as well as posting to several Mac forums.

I found the link shown below which gives a procedure that is supposed to work:

http://www.trickyways.com/2011/07/file-sharing-mac-os-x-lion-and-pc-windows-7/

However, it doesn't work for me. When I get to Step #6 and enter my password, I keep getting an "Incorrect Password" notification. Also, when I try to do Step #9, the "Windows Security" window never appears - in fact, nothing at all happens.

By the way, I am able to see my Windows 7 shared folders on my MBP, but cannot see my MBP shared folders on my Windows 7 system. Worked fine under Snow Leopard.

I'm bookmarking this forum and will check back if anyone can come up with a solution. I assume this is a bug in Lion and have reported it to Apple.

I reported this apparent bug at the following site:

Bug Reporting Page

I don't know if there is any site where reported bugs can be viewed.

Tomel51... this is the normal procedure to share folders. It work just fine on Snow, but doesn't on Lion. We have to expect Apple give us a fix or workaround to this problem very soon. For me it is yes a big problem. I'll even complain about getting my money back in the case of a downgrade to Snow (which I'll probably do). This major annoince is just the opposite of I like best in macs, that it is the friendly user experience.

Thats it... can't wait for Apple's good will. Too many problems. Backing up my files to downgrade to Snow.

Good luck to you all with Lion.

I'm having a slightly different problem. After the upgrade to Lion, sharing with my Win7 Virtual Machine (VMWare Fusion) worked as it did before. Suddenly, it stopped working. I reviewed the information on the above link http://www.trickyways.com/2011/07/file-sharing-mac-os-x-lion-and-pc-windows-7/. I turned off all sharing, rebooted, then turned it back on again. Now sharing works, except I can now see EVERYTHING from the Win7 machine. I can see the entire Mac hard drive, as well as the USB drive that I use for TM backups. I am only sharing out two folders.

I called tech support and spoke to someone who apparently didn't know very much, as he tried to blame it on the fact that the Windows machine is running as a VM, and that it's "Still sort of on the Mac". I tried to explain that things worked before the upgrade, and don't work now, but he was clearly at a loss to provide any useful information.

Has anyone else had this problem of "promiscuous" sharing?

This is an update to my previous post. It would appear that this "Promiscuous" file sharing is by design. In the File Sharing dialog box, it says:

"Windows users can access shared folders on this computer, and administrators all volumes, at \\192.168.1.102." (emphasis is mine).

It would seem that because my login account on the Windows VM is the same as my account on the Mac host, that Mac shares everything.

I would like to see a checkbox that would allow me to turn this off, so that I only share specific folders, rather than giving the Windows VM access to literally every file on the Mac.

I tried removing all shared folders on my MBP, deselecting File Sharing, rebooting, then selecting File Sharing. Still can't see my MBP on my Win 7 system. I CAN still see my Win 7 Shared Folders on my MBP (just the Win 7 folders that I want to share - not all folders).

I ran into a similar problem today, I could mount my Win 7 shares without trouble, but for some reason I could not see the Mac on my network in the Windows network app, but it responded to pings as normal.

About 10-15 minutes later it just suddenly appeared and I could connect to my Mac without problem.

When researching NAS connectivity in Lion I remembered reading about changes made to AFP and SMB in Lion, the result of which was that it would take a significantly longer period of time for the shares to connect. This "appears" to be the case. And no it had nothing to with the NetTalk 2.1/2.2 problems, so do not confuse it with those.

Jerry

Further file sharing issues, this one titled "Worked yesterday, but not today." This morning, I was unable to connect from my Win7 VM to any of my shares on the Mac. Win7 kept prompting me for login credentials, and of course nothing I entered would work.

I turned off file sharing on the Mac, then turned it back on, and voila! My shares are back.

This is hardly a reliable upgrade to file sharing, is it? SAMBA always worked without any issues at all.

i am having the same problem connecting to a 2010 mac mini recently upgraded to OS X 10.7.1 from a powerpc G5 imac running OS X 10.5.8...

it worked before the upgrade to lion... i rely on the mac mini as a photo sharing machine, and the imac for photo retouching, so it's a big deal to get this working.

i'm a software engineer and can't imagine how a bug like this could creep into the system.

this is the first time i've paid for an upgraded apple OS and i'm very disappointed.