Accessing NTFS drives on other computers over my LAN

[debian]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:10 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> 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.
on my system, my windows shares (which are all ntfs) sometimes come up
in nautilus under the Network servers, but most of the time it doesnt.
Ive noticed this since ubuntu 7.10

--cj