File sharing with windows

[Joshua Bassett]

Hi Jakob,

I'm pretty sure you need to include the name of the share you want to
mount in the url. Say for example you want to mount a windows share on
c drive, you need to use smb://thenameofthecomputer/c$ in nautilus.

ie. smb://thenameofthecomputer/thenameoftheshare

If you're using the command line to mount the share make sure you
escape the $ sign eg. smb://thenameofthecomputer/c\$

Hope this helps.

nullobject


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:16:44 -0400, Jakob Nickerson <roddimus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to be able to access files on my windows computer from my
> linux computer, but i have been having a couple of problems.  I was
> told I should use samba and type 'smb://thenameofthecomputer' in the
> nautilus window, but that doesn't seem to work, it tells me the
> 'folder contents cannot be displayed' because I don't have permission.
>  How do I put the username and password for file sharing in the line?
> I tried:
> smb://username:password@computername
> smb://username:password@ipaddress
> smb://username:password@domainname
> and those 3 without the password, none worked.
> so i can only assume that is the improper way of doing it,
> unfortunatly I have been looking in the wrong places for the info
> since everything i find deals with connecting to li/unix from windows.
> 
> anyways, I hope that was explained well enouph.
> 
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