also just a quick note for vista users. i tried using mplayer wii to access some shares i had created and used the samba share with username and password which i knew was right but it still didn't work, guess the vista laptop not authorizing for some reason but then i went into the network and sharing center (control panel>Network and internet>network and sharing center) and in there you have a number of sharing and discovery options.
I turned off password protected sharing and it all works fine, only do this if you understand what you are doing, you are opening up your shared folders to anyone on your LAN and potentially anyone in world if you have any malware/virus installed.
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