repeat: sharing problem

[Pybe]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:35:42 -0500, Payal Rathod
<payal-ubuntu at scriptkitchen.com> wrote:
> 
> My friend is having similar problems with her ubuntu as well. I have
> made a screen shot from her office and is at,
> http://payal.staticky.com/s1.png
> http://payal.staticky.com/s2.png
> 
> We both are not sure where to give ls -l, because /home/manali/smb
> does not exist.
> There was also a file "email adresses.txt" inthe same folder (from
> screenshot) which was opened, but no pdf, doc or xls files were
> opened. Can you get an idea?

It seems to be a bug with the smb browse funtion in nautilus, it
doesnt actually create a mount so the apps dont know where the file
is. If you actually mount the remote system it should be ok. In a
terminal try:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/jupiter-desktop
$sudo mount -t smbfs \\jupiter\DESKTOP /mnt/jupiter-desktop -o
username=<win-username>,gid=<ubuntu-username>,umask=002

Then open nautilus and browse to /mnt/jupiter-desktop and try to open
the file again. If this works for you, you can add a line similar to
the above in /etc/fstab and have it mount on boot or when asked.

HTH
Pybe