Opening a Windows Vista shared folder from Raring

John Hupp lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Thu Jul 18 20:07:01 UTC 2013


On 7/18/2013 3:37 PM, Federico Leoni wrote:
> 2013/7/18 John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com>:
>> I had no trouble in 12.10 Quantal opening a Windows XP share from the file
>> manager, but in a fresh install of 13.04 Raring, I tried to open a share on
>> a Windows Vista machine and depending on whether I tried to open Windows
>> Network or entered smb://<machine-name>/<share-name> in the file manager
>> address bar, I got one of these errors:
>>
>> "The specified location is not mounted"
>>
>> "Failed to mount Windows share: Connection timed out"
>>
>> This is a known issue with a solution?
>>
>> --John
>>
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> Hi John,
>
> yes, is a know issue with pcmanfm and there is an open bug already:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1174571
>
> status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
>
> F.

Thanks.  However I don't find that smb://<server-name>/<share-name> 
opens the share for me either (on a Windows Vista machine).

--John



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