Accessing Windows Shared Folders

[Vitorio Okio]

"Indika Rupasinghe" <rupasinghe at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:804612310806271015p3a72b574u72feb864013048e5 at mail.gmail.com...
Hi All,
I m using Ubuntu Hardy with all recommended updates on my desktop and 
now I m having problem with accessing windows shares on my network. 
Earlier with 7.10 when I accessing windows servers it asked for the 
user/pass and when I given it I got access to entire hard disk. But 
now with 8.04 I have to give the entire path even to access a windows 
a share folder.
When I browsing places -> Network , It shows the all available 
desktops and when I  select one it will not list the shared folders on 
it although there are folders sheared with full access permissions. 
But when I give the entire path I can access it.
(like smb://x.x.x.x/folder_name). How could I solve this issue ?

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This is a known issue with Hardy and there is a bug reported in 
Launchpad, I just do not remember the number.  Unfortunatelly the 
nature of it is still unclear and in addition their do not consider it 
a high priority.

Hardy does mount the remote files system via samba but for some weird 
and unknown yet reason Nautilus displays nothing.  To see your shares 
in Nautilus  do not use Go To Network button but instead type the path 
for you share in the Nautilus Address bar specifying explicitelly the 
share name, e.g.:

smb://remote_host_name/shared_folder_name.

Then Nautilus shows it and you gonna have an icon associated with your 
share on your desktop.  To avoid typing it frequently you can bookmark 
it in Nautilus.

If you instead want to access the entire drive on Windows, then type 
in Nautilus:

smb://remote_host_name/C$
or
smb://remote_host_name/D$

whatever drive you are accessing.  You can bookmark this as well.

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