Cannot browse Windows 2k3 AD shares from Ubuntu 8.04

[Markus Schönhaber]

Jeffrey D. Greenly schrieb:
> This appears to be a known issue, but nothing I've tried seems to fix
> it. Here's what is wrong.
> 
> I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a Pentium 4 system connected to a Win
> 2k3 Server AD network. My laptop, running 7.10 connects and accesses the
> windows shares without any complications. However, on the 8.04 machine,
> I can access some computers but not the file server, and I cannot see
> shared files in any shared folder. I have reverted Samba and related
> files back to Gutsy, with no effect. I have tried editing smb.conf with
> no effect. I have installed nfs-common, kerberos, and samba. At this
> point, because network access is important for this computer, I am
> thinking seriously about installing 7.10. Does anyone have any other
> suggestions? My google-fu cannot seem to overcome this problem.

What exactly do you do to browse the shares?
If you're using nautilus (the default Gnome filemanager) you might be
affected by a bug in the new VFS backend the Hardy version of Gnome
uses, which fails to list the shares in cases where a password is needed.
If you know the name of the share, you can enter its URL manually in
nautilus' location bar (press Ctrl+L or click on the edit icon). For
example, if you'd want to access the share "MyFineShare" on the machine
"MyADServer" the URL would be
smb://MyADServer/MyFineShare

The above wouldn't explain your "I cannot see shared files in any shared
folder" problem, though (at least the way I understand it).

Regards
  mks