[Samba] Nautilus & 'smb:' is it buggy?

[James Taylor]

I've googled for this and it seems quite a few people can't
access Windows shares as described below. Is Nautilus & the
smb: command buggy?


--- James Taylor <james_n_taylor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> New to Samba, RH8. Searched for an answer but without
> joy.
> 
> I have set up a lone Linux machine with Samba on a
> Windows
> 2K network. I can log in from Windows -> Linux. I can
> also
> login into Windows resources from Linux when I use the
> command: smbclient //hostname/sharename -U username
> 
> However, when I use Gnome Nautilus and the 'smb:'
> command,
> I can see the workgroup, enter and see the Windows server
> in the workgroup but when I open the server to locate the
> share I get ¨Couldnt Find \\hosename\sharename please
> check
> the spelling and try again¨
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Another question - are there any better ways of allowing
> a
> user access to a WinNT share than having to allow the
> Windows Guest user browse rights to the share?
> 
> Regards
> James
> 
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