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ubumubumu
July 8th, 2008, 07:44 AM
When trying to browse the shared resources of a computer with Windows XP Home edition, which is protected by
net user guest <password> (described here (http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/windowsxp/a/aa042204.htm)) Nautilus does not ask for a password and after that does not show the shared folders.
When using Gnome-Commander it asks for the password and shows the folder list, etc and everything is just fine.
The main problem is that because I can't logon from Nautilus I can't used the shared printer of the XP machine.
Can I force Nautilus to logon with a supplied password?

Ubuntu 8.04

bigken
July 8th, 2008, 07:48 AM
try installing samba

open a terminal

sudo apt-get install samba

sudo smbpasswd -a yourname
sudo smbpasswd -e yourname

you may need to reboot

ubumubumu
July 8th, 2008, 09:33 AM
Samba is installed and working.
The question is that I want login on a particular PC ith a password and Nautilus doe not seem to understand that a password is requred.
I do not understand how

sudo smbpasswd -a yourname
sudo smbpasswd -e yourname
will help me in this case?
Besides it sais Failed to modify password entry for user guest
.

ubumubumu
July 11th, 2008, 07:21 AM
up

bigken
July 11th, 2008, 07:56 AM
why dont you share the printer from your account on the windows pc

ubumubumu
July 14th, 2008, 06:35 AM
The printer is shared on the Windows PC, but I cannot access it through Nautilus from the Ubuntu PC. The other Windows PC's in the network have no problem accessing the printer.
I guess it's some kind of bug in Nautilus, I shall probably inform its developers :(