How to connect to my Windows Workgroup
 

Hello,

I am using ubuntu and I am trying to view my windows workgroup. How can this be done? I can see the other computers in network servers but when i click on the computer name no files appear. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

You will need to look into Samba and/or ssh.

Hi,

iiar, you can only see and access shares that are valid to your user. I don't know, what the windows terminology calls it, but in Samba, I mean any share that has "valid users" set to your user.

To access other shares, you can use "connect to server" (or similar, I run a translated gnome here). Simply select Windows Share and login information to browse any remote share.

Not all programs can deal remote shares "the gnome way". If you want to use, e.g. a console to access the remote share, you can mount a remote share using smbfs. Install smbfs with synaptic and mount the remote share with something like "mount -t smbfs -o user=user,pass=pass //ip/share /path/to/mountpoint". I am writing out of memory, perhaps the parameters differ slightly. You can check them in the corresponding man pages.
I don't know, if there is any nice gui for mounting remote smb shares.

For kde, there is a program called "smb4k". It looks good and let you explore the samba neighborhood as well as you can use it to mount any remote share.

Greets Clemente

The OP sees other computers in nautilus, but he couldn't find any files in the computers. It could be the computers don't have any shares ? Check it, please :).