[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:00, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 03/03/11 11:01, John MM wrote:
>>
>> Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the
>> best of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
>> absoluteluy no sense to me at all.
>
> What is hard to understand?
>
> "smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
> "Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree 
> with all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the 
> shares on the servers. "
>
>> Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread?
>> I wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?
>
> I wasn't being sarcastic at all. I replied to your question with the 
> answer.
>
>>
>> The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help
>> me. You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I
>> have found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have
>> asked similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has
>> gone nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just
>> wondered if somebody could help,
>
> Erm, I wasn't being sarcastic. You didn't say you had a problem, you 
> asked what smbtree was. I supplied a comprehensive answer IMHO.
>
> Al 

I did actaully say I had the same problem the error 255, you must have 
missed the e-mail.