Samba on Ubuntu - is it really this difficult?

[Joshua Bassett]

Andy,

Not really sure what your prob is, but since you're trying to use
mount (instead of smbclient) make sure you've got the smbfs kernel
module loaded. ie. sudo modprobe smbfs

Hope this helps,


Aroon,

>From what I've experienced, Nautilus doesn't (yet) let you browse
windoze/smb shares if your linux username + password is not the same
as the username + password on the smb/windoze box.

If this is the case for you, you'll have to be explicit in regards to
the share you want to open. I usually use Open Location (Ctrl+L) in
Nautilus. The URL should be of the form:

smb://windozepcname/sharename

eg. use smb://a-windows-pc/c$ to connect to a share on C drive on the
a-windows-pc box. If you're doing this from the command line remember
to escape the $ sign. eg. smbclient //a-windows-pc/c\$ -U
your-username -W your-workgroup

I know this is not the solution to the problem, but it does
work...Nautilus/SMB integration is fast improving from what I've seen
:)

nullobject


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:57:35 -0400, Aroon Pahwa <viperstyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> im having lots of issues with samba and file sharing with my windoze
> box as well.  unfortunately, i have no idea what im doing.  i was
> suprised to see that nautilus could see all my windoze boxes without
> any help but it failed to go anywhere past that (ie.  access any
> machines, list or access any shares, etc).  I realized that samba
> wasnt actually installed (wt?) so went ahead and installed it used
> synamptic.  still no change in behaviour.  i started the samba deamon
> using smbd (thats how you do it right?).  i also changed my workgroup
> to the same as the rest of my windows boxes using the configuration
> manager.
> 
> anyone have some advice.  im sure im missing a lot of steps in the
> process, many of which would lead to my failure as a human.  i havnt
> gotten a chance to google "setting up samba on Obuntu" yet.
> 
> aroon pahwa
> viperstyx at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:49:22 +0100, Andy <ubuntu at arda.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Andy A wrote:
> >
> > > Aargh!  Why is Samba so hideously difficult to set up on Ubuntu?  Did
> > > I not read somewhere Ubuntu it is meant to be 'user friendly'?
> >
> > Not a full response to your problems, but if you just want to access
> > files on another Samba or Windows box, you could try installing smbfs
> > and then mounting the shares with smbmount. That's my normal way of
> > doing it on any Linux box and it's worked fine for me on ubuntu (just
> > remember to set smbmnt and smbumount setuid root if you want to be able
> > to mount and unmount as user).
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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