The annoying question about connecting Windows 7 to Samba

Question

Samba

Judging by the number of answers to this question in google, the situation has been studied, there are more than enough solutions. However, this is the second day I've been trying to connect a laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic (x64) to samba. Not a domain, just a file server. I tried different options found on the Internet, in desperation I called Microsoft, where they told me that this was not their problem.
samba 2:3.4.7.
I don't know if it makes sense to list all the methods used here?
I suspect the first tip would be to make some changes to secpol.msc. There is no secpol in the home base. Just like gpedit. I made the necessary changes using regedit. When you try to connect a network drive through gui - a cyclic password request. Through cmd - "System error 5. Access denied"
If suddenly someone has an intelligible, chewed up manual, preferably with different options for different versions of samba and windows, I would be grateful.

Answer 1

A cyclic password request indicates that you do not have access rights to the resource, I think it will be enough to look at the samba logs to understand by what criterion it rejects you.
On different sevens (32 and 64) and win2008, the server has no problems, you go to the ball using samba, the samba
number from one
samba-3.0.33-3.29 server

Answer 2

Are you sure that the problem is in Windows? Are other Windows (XP?) connected?
I had two Ubuntu machines at work, on one samba got up immediately and with a bang, on the other they could not start it. The problem all the same in a samba can?

Answer 3

In the same way, Windows 7 on the computer does not see the ball on the netbook through samba ... And I saw it for a while, then stopped ...