am trying to connect to samba shares with the GNOME GUI's "Places/Connect to Server" Dialog box.

I have 2 Fedora 6 machines, it works perfect on one, and does not work on the other.

On the one which does not work, it asks for the password, after typing in the password, the window disappears leaving just the icon on the desktop, when i double click on that icon, it once again asks for the password. It never gives any error message, and does this regardless of if i give it the correct or incorrect password.

Hopefully somebody can point out my mistake here, coz it's driving me nuts..

Regards.

Glen Greig

This is going to depend on your samba configuration.. but...

make sure you have user names on both machines added via smbpasswd -a username

then add a password when prompted.

root@foo:# smbpasswd -a testuser
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
root@foo:#

Hope this helps

Isn't smbpasswd for setting up the passwords on the server?

The server is working fine from what i can gather, as other machines (linux and windows alike) have no issues connecting, it's just this one machine..

I tried your surgestion anyway, with no success..

On further investigation, i have found that at the console, i can login to the samba servers using the smbclient command without any problem using the same login details..

So, it seems just specific to connecting via the GUI.

OK, when i try and mount manually, it seems the command smbmount does not exist, but i have the samba-client package installed..

I would have thought that smbmount would be part of smb-client? is this correct, and if so, what would casue smbmount to be missing?

OK, well, it seems that smbmount doesn't exist on the machine it works on anyway, so obviously thats not the problem.

So, does anybody have any advice? I'm still compleatly stumped by this problem..