Accessing NTFS drives on other computers over my LAN

[Steven Davies-Morris]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/05/2008 03:57 PM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> 
>> Following up one more time. I can access the shared folders on any of
>> my LAN's Win2K and WinXP boxes if I enter the desired link in the
>> Nautilus browser location bar.
>>
>> i.e smb://dmz/d$/
>> or smb://jedi/games/
>>
>> Which I then bookmark. Not very satisfactory since I wanted to get to
>> these through the "network servers" link in Nautilus, but it's an OK
>> workaround for now.
> 
> This seems to be a common issue with Hardy/Samba/Nautilus lately. You'll
> find all sorts of posts in this list, the Ubuntu forums, and the
> launchpad bug list with related items. I've finally given up as I simply
> don't have time to continue messing about with the problem, and there
> are too many unconsidated reports to put a finger on the exact issue.
> Instead I also resort to the above bookmark workaround for the time being.

That's the conclusion I came to.  I'll revisit it if it gets fixed in 
Hardy, otherwise I'll worry about it again with the "I" release.
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