[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Matthew Daubney]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 19:58 +0000, John MM wrote:
> Ok, I just wondered, can I ask the question again, I have managed to get 
> the computers to see each other, but I cannot get Nautilus to show the 
> directories, from either the Ubuntu partition or the Windows Partition. 
> When I go into Places>Network, I click on the Icon in there, and still 
> get Unable to mount location - Failed to retrieve share list from 
> server. I have searched for that using Google, not much comes up, that I 
> can understand anyway. I am still wondering if it is a 
> Permissions/ownership thing. Is there a command in the Terminal I can 
> use to see why Nautilus camt view the files.
> 

Not sure if this will help, but I've never got nautilus to work happily
in that manner with SMB, however, if you hit ctrl+l in a nautilus window
it will drop you into the address bar. Now just type smb://192.168.x.x/
and hit enter. 

It should now show you the available shares for that machine.

If it doesn't, in a terminal, type "nautilus" and try again. If you
still get any errors, see if it dumps anything into the terminal window
and if it does, paste that back to us here.

-Matt Daubney