Browsing shares on a Windows 2000 machine

[Jeff Waugh]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 09:55 +0100, Mark C wrote:
> But I agree for GNU/Linux or should I say GNOME to be taken seriously or 
> used in workplaces/enterprise market, it's things like this that *WILL* 
> make or break it, sadly we are in the position where we HAVE to be able 
> to talk to MS machines (the other way around seems not to apply :(), for 
> it to even be considered into the workplace.

Try adding "WORKGROUP = <whatever>" to ~/.smb/smb.conf

> This is the one  main thing that is stopping Ubuntu from being used in 
> my company, they will not replace the thousands they have wasted on 
> buying windows 2003 servers, so when I was trying Ubuntu for work, the 
> main factor was that users can use network shares easily, and be able to 
> read/write to them, for example they cannot use gedit to write to a 
> file, as it opens it Read-Only, gnome-vfs is still unable to write to 
> windows shares.

That's a gedit issue, not a problem with gnome-vfs. There's no problem
writing to smb locations in general.

- Jeff

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