I've got a home network with 3 PCs and 3 Macs and 1 Linux computer attached, plus printers and other bits. For the longest time, I couldn't get OS/X Lion 10.7 computers to connect to a public share on a Windows 7 box. All the obvious steps lead to "connection failure" on the Mac. The PCs could see each other fine and access the files.
The fix turned out to be that I needed to turn on WINS on the Windows box. Apparently WINS is kind of like DNS for NetBIOS. Yikes, NetBios! Who knew it still mattered?
The key page that did it for me is Configuring WINS Settings in Windows XP/Vista/7 which is from Virginia Tech. Do this and then on your Mac Finder either Go Network or Connect to Server and Bob's your uncle.
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