Cannot access SAMBA shares

[linuxman94]

Hello all,

Whenever I try to access a samba share via nautilus, I get this error:



I am at a loss of what to. It use to work, but one day it quit on me.

I had this problem in 9.10 as well.

[Morbius1]

Is nautilus trying to access an authenticated share and did you tell nautilus to remember the username and password forever?

If so then you might be the victim of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...fs/+bug/463267

The workaround mentioned in that bug report deletes the saved username and password so you'll have to authenticate manually. To find the saved username and password:

Applications > Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keys > Passwords Tab

Expand the "Passwords: login" entry and you should see the the entry for the remote share.

[linuxman94]

That was it. I guess I'll just authenticate manually from now on.

[Ginsu543]

I was able to get around this issue by simply doing the following:
1) Open Terminal
2) sudo gedit /etc/hosts
3) Add the IP address and name of the samba share you are trying to access, like this:

198.162.0.xxx Miniserver

After saving the file, I was able to access the samba share using the Network tab in Nautilus or using the Location bar by typing in smb://miniserver/name_of_shared_folder.