Can't browse windows shares from nautilus

[Steve Blackwell]

On 11/10/04 22:40:11, Markus Huber wrote:
> Am Di, den 12.10.2004 schrieb Steve Blackwell um 4:11:
> 
> > So it would appear that Nautilus is not reading my smb.conf file.
> > Any pointers on how to proceed from here will be appreciated.
> 
> I have more or less the same problem with my laptop. I cannot connect
> to
> a share I am privileged to on a NT-LAN-Network through Nautilus.
> 
> My workaround sofar: I use Konqueror as Filemanager through Gnome.  
> The
> only thing I had to do is to start the LISa service, and I can log in
> and use the share without any problems.
> 
> Since my laptop is not serving, I only use samba-client and
> samba-common, and samba.config is set to client. I configured the
> domain, and that was it, LISa can read it.
> 
> KDE through Gnome does it for me at the moment. And I'll carefully
> study
> if there are any improvements with Gnome 2.8. So an upgrade might be
> worth it. But: I remember reading about this problem since Gnome 2.2
> (?).
> 
> I cannot give you more precise information about it at the moment,
> because I am not at work now.

Thanks for the info Markus. I turned off the my samba server too, to  
narrow down the packages that could be causing the problem. At one  
time, under FC1 and GNOME 2.4 I think, this used to work. I have never  
used the KDE desktop but maybe its time to try.

Steve