Hmph. "taskel install samba-server" apparently installed nothing new on my home ubuntu server, and my Win 7 still can't see it (Mrs.D's still can).

So the problem may be baked in to Win 7 64-bit SP1 (pretty sure Mrs.D's is 32, dunno if she has SP1), or more accurately a patch therein (KB2536276), according to this: http://tinyurl.com/ybf3thz6

Uninstalling this patch (assuming I even have it) *might* fix it.  :-/
 

All good.

Fantastic.

Yeah, there must have been about 50 different fixes on offer, spread over a couple of forum pages going back to 2009, but the one that seemed to get the most votes was check adaptor for "client for MS networks" (lacking on mine, and apparently many other Win 7 installs). But I also did one more thing while I was at it: enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Rebooted and everything on the network was visible in my file browser, so I didn't bother with deleting the supposedly offending KB.

So now my music library is accessible, I had to find a good BEE-THEMED music player, natch: https://getmusicbee.com

I've been using Music Bee for around a year. It's the honey gatherer's patellas.

 

It's freaking awesome! It auto-organized my music library from the share, and even found cover art for most of it wiffout me asking. Great equalizer too.

Oh yeah, it also plays flac.

Yep, it was the ability to play FLAC files that sold me on it. (bounce)

 

My only problem with MusicBee is not being able to run it on Linux. :(

(It claims to run via WINE, but had issues last time I tried.)

I wish it ran on linux too, cause it kind of beats up the linux-native apps I've tried. Never had much truck with wine.