Accessing Windows Shares from Ubuntu

Pybe squalidstuff at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 10:58:07 UTC 2005


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:21:14 -0600, Kent Frazier <kentfrazier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:17:37 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com
> <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sometimes from windows to windows you can do "guest" with no password
> > or "guest" with password "guest".
> >
> > Did you enter no password or guest as the password? What did it do?
> 
> I had tried guest with no password, and it didn't work.  Guest with
> password guest did the trick though, thanks.  Now I am wondering if
> there is a way to make it automatically use that login/pass, because
> it asks me for it when I first access the computer, before it lets me
> see its shares, and also any time I try to access one of the shares.
> Does the gnome keyring take care of that sort of stuff?  Is there a
> setting somwhere where I can try an automatic guest login?

You could add the shares to /etc/fstab and tell it to mount them all
on boot so then they would just be there as mounted drives from the
moment you log in.

HTH 
Pybe




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