Opening a Windows Vista shared folder from Raring

[John Hupp]

On 7/18/2013 4:07 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> 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
>

The work-around was actually innocent here.  It seems that there was 
some sort of a problem in Windows.  I un-shared and then re-shared the 
folder in Windows and now smb://<server-name>/<share-name> opens it.

--John