Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

[SergeantOreo]

I just followed the entire thread, and still have no results..
Perhaps I will have to disable ufw.

[cyberjohn]

First off, Thank You for the excellent instructions. I did find that I had to turn UFW off altogether to be able to browse the windows shares.
It is interesting that None of the remedies was necessary when I was connected to the network through a wired connection, I nedded the extra steps only when using the wireless adapter.

Now to my problem. somewhere in this process, an icon appeared on my desktop that is labled "my documents on john.volume" where john is the name of a windows computer and my documents is a folder I have shared on it. this cannot be opened, deleted, renamed or moved. I does not appear in desktop when examined with explorer.

Does anyone know what to do??
My machine is a Toshiba Satellite laptop, running Ubuntu 9.04 patched as of yesterday, with motorola wireless adapter

[dmizer]

I just followed the entire thread, and still have no results..
Perhaps I will have to disable ufw.

Do you have a serious need for a firewall? If you're connected to a router, usually that handles security well enough that you don't need a local firewall. Even in Windows, local firewalls don't do much other than offer peace-of-mind unless you have a direct connection to the internet.

Either way, disabling the firewall will help with troubleshooting.

Does anyone know what to do??

Please post the output of:

ls -la Desktop

[cyberjohn]

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 johnp johnp 4096 2009-06-12 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 43 johnp johnp 4096 2009-06-15 16:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 johnp johnp 187 2009-06-10 12:21 Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues - Ubuntu Forums.desktop

[dmizer]

cyberjohn, does it survive a reboot?

[cyberjohn]

Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues
cyberjohn, does it survive a reboot?

Yes it does. Is this wierd or what??

[dmizer]

Try this:

sudo ls -la Desktop

[cyberjohn]

johnp@toshlaptop:~$ sudo ls -la Desktop
[sudo] password for johnp:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 johnp johnp 4096 2009-06-12 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 43 johnp johnp 4096 2009-06-15 16:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 johnp johnp 187 2009-06-10 12:21 Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues - Ubuntu Forums.desktop
johnp@toshlaptop:~$


no change.

[dmizer]

I suggest opening a new thread in the Desktop environments section: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=329

[cyberjohn]

Thank you dmizer

I suggest opening a new thread in the Desktop environments section: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=329

I have done that