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    Re: Sticking with Unity?

    NO.
    Choice is good thing and both Unity and Gnome have their good and bad points.
    However, on low spec machines (I use Ubuntu mainly on an old Netbook), Unity is a show stopper as it is very slow...
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    Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

    Hi DMIZER - Thanks for your help but for me at least this seems to have been a Windows issue. It seems that - Windows Live ID sign in Asssistant - which almost always gets installed by default with...
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    [ubuntu] Re: windows 7/ubuntu file sharing

    I have spent days trying to solve this problem and followed all the very helpful advice given by DMIZER but eventually traced it to a Windows issue. It seems that - Windows Live ID sign in Asssistant...
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    Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

    I'm afraid so.
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    Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

    The Path Name I type in is "\\w7-portable" which produces the %5c message. If I use just "w7-portable" I get "smb://w7-portable/". The rest of the error message being the same.
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    Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

    I have the Samba server running and to simplify things for the moment I have made all my passwords the same. I can see the shares in Nautilus but whatever I do (I have created a user with the same...
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    Re: Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

    Thanks for all your info - I have followed it word for word, and can see the windows shares but no matter what I do I still get bounced back to the password screen every time I try to connect to the...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Unable to mount location: Failed to retrieve share list from server

    Totally agree with 888guy. Played with version 9.10 and couldn't get that to access windows shares. Have been trying for 3 days now with v 10 and have followed and actioned the suggestions in this...
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