New Edubuntu user

[Charles Austin]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lois Castro <lois.castro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 2-Up to know, we've had a school-wide Vindows Server 2003 network. There are
> different drives, one for teachers, one for students, a shared one and so
> on. Students and teachers also have permissions set here, with username,
> passwords, etc... I installed Ubuntu on a few workstations and it
> immediately connected to the internet and detected the Windows network, but
> it doesn't seem to be able to access any of the drives. Also, passwords and
> permissions are not recognised. As I said, my knowledge of networks is very
> limited. Any suggestions here?
>
If you can see the Windows drives, you should be able to connect with
this format (assuming you are being prompted for a username and
password):

Domain\Username
Password

I cannot remember if the slash after the domain is a forward or
backward (try it both ways).

Hope that helps,
Charles