Copying from Windows SOLVED

[StrayBit]

Installed 32 bit VL 7.1.  It is great that Thunar can navigate to my Win7 machine.  What is not nice is that if I try to copy a file from Win7 to VL, Thunar disappears without copying.  If I have two copies of Thunar running, they both disappear.  Even if I navigate back from Windows to home, it still disappears. 
If I double click on an Excel file on Windows, Gnumeric does open it.

[retired1af]

I've had that happen. If I turn right back around and do it again, the file/files copy over.

[nightflier]

You may also want to try installing another file manager (spacefm, pcmanfm) and see how it does.

[StrayBit]

I could find no way to open/browse SMB files in either pcmanfm nor spacefm.  I spent over an hour with the latter.  I do like that I can open a root terminal or gui in the it.
I upgraded Thunar per the other post which worked.

[nightflier]

Good to hear you got it working.

For future reference, to connect to samba shares in spacefm: Use the address bar on top and enter:
smb://username@IPaddress/sharename

[StrayBit]

I have not seen any address bar nor found any way to get it visible.

[nightflier]

Okay, the main thing is you got it working in Thunar, so you're good.