FC2--can't get SMB share from nautilus

[Don Campbell]

Yup. Got there after several missteps.

I had gotten close many times. First, I had started with "smb:///"
and gotten the computer's listed. I put smb:///SMITH/SMITH-D for
the name of the computer and share because "SMITH" is how the
computer is listed in the workgroup listing. Putting 2 slashes
in gets the same error.

The share when listed by Win98 until the listing is made all lower case.
(under Win4Lin) is "Smith/Smith-D".  Putting "smb://Smith/Smith-D"
fails as before. What worked finally is "smb://smith/smith-d"

OK, *nix is case sensitive but if nautilus wants to be fussy about
case sensitivity it probably shouldn't change the cases in the
process.

Anyway, thanks for your help. I think the mystery is solved
and is due to nautilus bugginess/quirkiness rather than a
misunderstanding about setting up samba.

Don
Gerald Thompson wrote:

>Hi Don;
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>Ok I duplicated exactly what you went through.
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>First off the new nautilus interface for browsing folders by default is
>dumb.  When you just double click on Computer or user's home on the
>desktop you get that window with no menu bars that cannot be customized.
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>Here is what I finally found:
>- right click on your Computer folder on desktop, choose Browse Folder.
>- or click on Browse File system in the gnome menu
>- you are going to have to click on Go at the top and go to Computer, if
>you right clicked on Computer on your desktop you will already be there.
>- you will now see a traditional nautilus window that you can actually
>type your location into.
>- double click on Network
>- double click on your Windows Network
>- double click on your work group
>- you should now see the available computer shares
>- if you double click on the computer you want you will get the error
>that you mentioned in this e-mail.
>- in location type smb://computer name/share folder name/
>- you should get the password dialogue box now.  I got it.
>- I think there is a bug in nautilus where you can only access a share
>if you type in the full path of the share folder you need access to.
>
>If I can figure out a way to get Nautilus to display the list of shares
>under the computer name I will reply back.
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>What I did find out for you is that you have to go into browse mode in
>order to access your share by typing it into the location bar.
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>So just right click on your desktop Computer icon, choose Browse Folder
>and that will take you into browse mode.
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>Tyep in the direct path of your share folder
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>smb://computer name/share name/
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>you will get the password dialogue box.
>
>Gerald Thompson
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