Daniel Drummond wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 10:58 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > >> mac wrote: >> >>> John Matthews wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, I wonder can somebody help with this please? How do you find out if >>>> Samba isnt running? >>>> >>>> >>> Does this help: >>> >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733619 >>> >>> mac >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hi, that didnt work, I didnt understand most of it. I still cant get my >> network to work. >> >> John >> >> > > Hi John, > > I don't normally connect to shared drives through the Network Icon, but > I use Places->Connect To Server > > Then choose Windows Share in the drop down box, fill in the ip address, > share name, Domain Name (Workgroup), and I usually just create a > bookmark, so next time I can just click one icon, and it mounts it > straight away. Under username you may have to put the name of a user > account on the machine you are trying to connect to (and a corresponding > password if asked). > > > Running samba will not help unless you have shares on your Ubuntu system > that you want to make available to the other computers. Then it > requires Samba configuration. To access files on other computers > usually doesn't need any configuration or samba daemons on a standard > Ubuntu install. > > Hope that helps > > Dan > > > Hi, before upgrading to Karma, that is what I used to be able to do, is click on Places, then Network then it would have two icons, one was the Windows icon, the other Linux icon. I now only have the window Icon, and when I click on that, it says unable to mount. Nothing happens, and I have a Linux machine and windows machine open.
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