Browsing Windows Shares from Nautilus
 

Hello all!

I have a small problem in that I can browse my LAN and access a Windows PC using Samba. The problem is that when I try to access one of the shared folders it reports that I don't have permission to access the folder. Is it something to do with the file system being FAT32 and Linux being ext3?

Nope. Filesystem differences aren't a concern when working with Windows/Samba shares. You may have set access permissions on your Window share, so your Linux computer isn't sending the proper password/username combo. You may have to use smbpasswd to set the password for the particular user you are trying to connect to the share.

That's not entirely true. There could be an issue if the share was mounted without user permissions. You might need to mount the share specifying something like umask=000.

I see what you mean, gargamel - about not having permission for regular users on the Linux box to access the mounted share. But I meant that there is no real concern that the filesystems between Win32 and Linux are different since the SMB and Samba protocols handle those differences transparently.

But yea, I agree with your tip on checking user permissions on the Linux machine.