Samba shares in Nautilus

[Karny]

I'm having difficulty browsing my corporate network (Windows) using Nautilus (2.2 - 2.4).

If I use the "Network neighborhood" icon in Nautilus I get the following error

[kronon]

well i think the problem is that you atomaticaly log in as your current user name. You may have an conflict there and if so you should find a way to change your user name manualy.

[Karny]

I don't think that that is a problem. I created my *nix user as a clone of my Windows login, so username and password are the same.

The thing is, it even prompts me for my username/password when accessing the shares... but it doesn't seem to like them.

Could it be the encyrpted password issue?
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[semiSfear]

Use LinNeighborhood instead. It's much better. It's in portage. I think it's a lot better than Nautilus when it comes to network browsing. Thats my suggestion and oppinion. But if you still incist on using Nautilus as network browser then I can't help you.
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[Stu L Tissimus]

Meh, I could never understand LinNeighborhood or xSMBrowser. But here's what you can do. I'm doing this from my hed, so it might not be correct... but try it:

[Karny]

Thanks Stu L Tissimus.

I've already got the most common network resources in my fstab. My main issue is when i have to go to an obscure network locate to get X file. Mounting and Unmounting shares is painful.

Ultimately I'm just being lazy, but it would be nice to have a network neighborhood-like feature, and as nautilus "supports" it, its frustrating that I can't use it.

Thanks for the response tho.
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[Stu L Tissimus]

(Meh, I still have to figure out how to do most of this... I only just started using Samba like a day ago)

But also, wouldn't this do a bit better in the Networking/Security section?
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[474]

If attempting to use SMB shares from Nautilus, then be certain that you have installed gnome-vfs-extras. This provides a handy "Network Neighborhood" icon in the Network Servers area (bottom of Gnome menu). You should be prompted for your credentials when you attempt to connect to a share, at which point they are cached for a while. The configuration of smb.conf shouldn't really be important.

When you are asked for the password, are you also asked for your username? If not, then it would be reasonable to assume that your current username is being used when attempting to connect to the share. If there is not a matching username/password pair in the SAM of the Windows machine you are connecting to (assuming it is a Windows machine) then you will certainly be denied access.

Stu, for direct mounting this is probably more like it:

[Stu L Tissimus]

Wouldn't //computer/sharename be \\computer\sharename?

Just wondering.
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[Karny]

kerframil, thanks for the response... it was a good one!

The strange thing is, if I use xfsamba (or LinNeighborhood for that matter) I can connect to and authenticate myself on Windows machines. I just can't do it through Nautilus.

My main question was whether Nautilus used smb.conf and if not, what does it use? I'd really like to fiddle with some settings, but Nautilus itself doesn't really have any and I couldn't find anything in gconf-editor.

Not sure if this means anything, but I'm the sole Linux box in our organisation and all the servers and clients are a mixture of almost every flavour of windows and MacOS.
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[474]

Stu: the short answer is no it wouldn't

Karny: as far as I know, virtually anything that makes use of SMB does not re-invent the wheel. It typically uses smbclient, smbfs support and so forth.

If you wish to change the way your machine participates then you need to alter smb.conf. Make sure that you have installed samba (I realise that may sound obvious, but kernel support is not enough). If you are operating as a domain client or wish for you box to authenticate logons itself and/or provide resources then you may wish to ensure that you have started the samba service and that you keep it running.

There are vast quantities of resources concerning Samba available. The Using Samba book is provided with Samba itself in HTML format. The many text docs are also of excellent quality. Then there is the SWAT web administration tool, webmin and countless other resources on the Net. The smb.conf file should be well commented too, and the smb.conf man page is excellent. If you need specific help with some aspect of SMB configuration then I would propose another post in the Networking section of these forums.

One more thing, it may be possible to specify the username/password in the URI path. Example:

[Stu L Tissimus]

Well, while we're on the subject, may I ask how to use xSMBrowser or LinNeighborhood? I can never get them to work.

Also, I've been looking around but I can never find a good guide to smb.conf...
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[Karny]

kerframil, thanks a million! That what I needed to know

Stu, maybe try using xfsamba, It was suggested in another post on this forums and its very nice. It also uses the settings in the smb.conf file though, so you would need to have a correctly set up smb.conf in order to get the most out of it.

xfsamba is in portage
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[Hull]

I noticed the same problem with kernel 2.6.0 with supermount enabled.
When I uncommented supermount options in fstab - everything work
perfect. In my opinion its bug with supermount or kernel.

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