Connecting to a windows network

I am an MBA and Lion OS newbie of one day. The basic interface is straight forward but I have a problem getting my new laptop to work with my existing Windows 7 network. Specifically I have a file server (Lacie EDMINI NAS) and I can see it (sometimes) and it lists the directories but when I try to open a directory it tells me that the device is not avilable/present. After I click the device in the finder sidebar it seems to disappear.

I have the same problem at my work. We have a full Windows 2003 server and I can't connect to it. I can print through the server and connect to the internet, but can't connect to the server to see the files, although the server thinks that I logged in (the log file shows that it let me in), but for some reason apple doesn't see that.
The only solution so far was that I've made an ftp access to the windows server, this way I can connect and see the files on windows 2003. matter fact I use sftp to do that to make it secure. that means your server admin has to create and sftp option to connect to the server. the good side of that is that you can have access to your files on the windows server from everywhere.
but if anyone has any idea how to connect to a windows 2003 server, please let me know, because so far I know at least 4 or 5 businesses who has the same problem. that needs to be solved by apple.
one more option is to run parallels on your machine and through that you can access and share files with windows servers, that is what I am also doing and it works fine, just a bit slow.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Apparently there is no HP software support for the HP 3050 fax or scan functions with OS X 'Lion' 10.7:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02950970 #A1
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?&objectID=c0292511 4
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2) If your Mac hardware supports an older OS X version, downgrade to one (Snow Leopard?) that still had support for print, fax and scan.
3) Buy a newer printer. A 2007 model is 5+ years old, and should now be fully depreciated in a business.

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Hello!
I've just bought an iMac....
If it's a brand new machine, you should be in this forum area:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
as you've found the forums for much older iMAcs with G4 processors
or you can also ask in the Leopard OS Networking sub-forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1222
If your iMac is an older model, then post the model details and we can go from there.
A

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johnthompson1993 wrote:
Hi,
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