Nautilus SAMBA and Windows Machines

b3<k · 05-21-2004, 05:43 PM

When I browse the network from my linux machine i can see the windows work group but when i open it there is nothing inside it and if i search for a windows share it gives me this error
Couldnt display "smb:///whatever"
Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying the file
im kinda a newb with linux but ive used redhat 9 b4 with no problems
if anyone knows what to do please help

silmaril8n · 05-21-2004, 07:11 PM

May be a permissions problem. Do you have the users setup on the server properly? Do they have read/write access... or just read.

b3<k · 05-21-2004, 07:28 PM

users on the samba server have both read and write priveleges
im not really sure why the priveleges have anything to do with me getting from the linux machine to a windows machine though
i have no problem getting from a windows machine into the linux machine and sending it a file

sueno · 05-27-2004, 05:53 PM

Hi
I´m a

too having exactly the same problem as the person above so if anybody can help us I would be Very thankful

flipboi · 05-27-2004, 07:48 PM

Try opening the ports used by samba: ports 137-139. I hope that helped.

hast0011 · 06-17-2004, 01:59 AM

Hi there,

I am not alone :-)

Entering
smb:/// in Nautilus tells me something like:
"smb:///" couldn't be found. Perhaps it has recently been deleted.

Entering
smb:///PCname/shrename or smb://group/pcname/share
gives the problem described above.

However using the manual mount commands together with fstab works fine so I guess at least my firewall makes no problem.

Thanks for any help.

Steffen

andrewdodsworth · 06-17-2004, 02:16 AM

Had similar problems with Konqueror in SuSE 9.1 initially - couldn't browse windows machines, however, using commandline stuff like smbclient and mount -t smbfs worked so it was down to the smb browsing stuff in the GUI. My problem now fixed by SuSE in an online update - can only suggest you look for updates to your GUI clients.