Originally Posted by quigonkenny

Many thanks to MagicianPe as I was able to access my remote PC (Win7 Ultimate x64) using this option. But others seem to be having problems, so I will try to help.

Assuming you are already in the "Network" section of Astro:

1. Select "New".
2. Select "SMB".
3. Press the <Menu> button on your phone.
4. An "Advanced Settings" button should pop up. Select it.
5. Select "New Property".
6. Enter "jcifs.smb.client.useExtendedSecurity" (no quotes, note capitalization) under "Key" and "false" (no quotes) under "Value".
7. Select "OK" then press <Back>.
8. Enter your share information:
8a. Label: What you want to call the link. Will appear under the icon.
8b. Server: The IP address of the remote computer. The "Full Computer Name" mentioned by mo*****t should work as well.
8c. Share: Optional. Best to leave it blank if you're just trying to get it to connect the first time.
8d. Domain: The domain name or more likely workgroup name that the remote PC is a part of.
8e. Directory: Optional. Best to leave it blank if you're just trying to get it to connect the first time.
8f. User Name: Your username on the remote PC. If you don't have a password for that username, try leaving this entry and the one below blank and see if you can't access certain files or folders.
8g. Password: The password for the above username. As suggested above, if you don't have one, try leaving both these entries blank the first time through.
9. Select "Test" and if it works, "Save".

A couple notes:

If you were able to successfully "Test" without a "User Name" and "Password", see if some of your folders or files are missing. If so, create a password on the remote PC, reboot it, and once it's back up and logged in, edit your network link in Astro (select it, but don't let go until a menu pops up, then select "Edit") and enter the username and password, and see if that fixes the problem.

"Share" and "Directory" are optional. If you leave them both blank, you will link to a "root share", where the drives on your remote PC (represented by C$, D$, etc.) are shown but probably inaccessible, and there is a separate folder for each of your shares. If you put one of your share's names in "Share", you can link directly to that share, but probably can't then go "up" to the "root share" from there. "Directory" should allow you to link to a folder inside of whichever share you entered, but I didn't try it, so I could be wrong.

Again, many thanks to MagicianPe.