File sharing with windows

[Jakob Nickerson]

Thanks, that helped a little, when i typed it like that in nautilus it
prompted me for the username, domain, and password.  I put those
in(except for the domain because i'm not sure what that is asking
for...), and it gave me an error saying "The folder contents could no
be displayed.  Sorry, couldn't display all of the contents of
_foldername_" now though, when I try it again, it again the foot icon
just keeps doing it's animation thing infinitely.

I can connect to the share on the windows machine from other windows
computers, and connect to my linux box from the windows computer in
question, also, it pings alright both ways, just to double check the
connections.

....

Ok, as it turns out, I just asked a friend and he walked me through
mounting the share to a folder on the linux machine.  which was a
totally differant way than what i was trying to do.

Thanks again, I guess this problem is solved?

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:17:20 +1300, Joshua Bassett
<josh.bassett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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