Connection string to Ubuntu Server from Ubuntu Desktop

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

If this is the wrong forum, apologies.

Have a LAN with a mix of Windows boxes, a Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and now a Ubuntu Desktop 13.10

The Ubuntu server has USB drives attached and the following notes relate to connecting to the USB drives through the 'Connect to Server' dialog from another Ubuntu server.

# To access another server's USB drive(s)
# Home Folder > File > Connect to Server...
# Server: econel
# Type: Windows share
# Share: Share name
# Domain: WORKGROUP
# User name: user
# Password: password

# Check 'Remember this password'

# Connect and save as Bookmark

However the 'Connect to Server' dialog in 13.10 desktop does not have anywhere to enter the data.

Is it possible to create a string containing the required data, please?

TIA

[cariboo]

You may get more help here.

[ChrisRChamberlain]

cariboo907

Thanks for the redirection

[steeldriver]

In 13.10 it has been split into 2 dialogs - you enter the server details in the 1st one, then when you press Connect a second dialog will pop up asking for the remaining data

[ChrisRChamberlain]

steeldriver

Thanks for you reply

The first connection string is:-

smb://econel/

The second dialog is a list of shares on the server without the facility to enter any further data.

All the conventional shares allow access as they do not require credentials.

Selecting a share that is a USB device produces the messagebox error message:-

Unable to access location

Failed to mount Windows share: Permission denied

Credentials are theoretically not required for the USB drives, either.

Linux Mint has the full dialog and works as expected so why not Ubuntu Desktop?

[nerdtron]

The file manager of Linux Mint is different from the file manager of Ubuntu 13.10.

On the URL bar of the file manager in Ubuntu 13.10 type:

sftp://user@IPaddress

You'll be asked for the credentials and automatically be directed to the home folder of that user.

[ChrisRChamberlain]

nerdtron

Thanks for your reply.

Your suggestion indeed takes you to the home folder of the server.

So how do you navigate to a Windows share accessible as './media/sharename'?

[Morbius1]

EDIT: Completely misunderstood your earlier post.

As far as the usb devices are they formatted to NTFS?

What are the permissions of /media/sharename?

 ls -al /media/sharename

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Morbius1

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, formatted to NTFS

folder permissions are :- drwx------

except root which is :- drwxr-xr-x

[Morbius1]

Try this first:

In Connect to Server enter the server/share this way:

smb://username@econel/sharename

You will be prompted for a password.

This issue here is not a samba error but a Linux permissions error. The way I suggest above will work if the owner of the mounted partition is "username". If not then we need to fix the share definition so that you can access the share. For that we need the output of the following command:

testparm -s