[Wolves] samba help

[Adam Sweet]

--- Simon Morris <mozrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/02/06, Baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 16 Feb 2006, at 12:33, Simon Morris wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > it weird, the only way I can see my Ubuntu box
> from my iMac is with,
> > smbclient //MACHINENAME/sharename -U username from
> the terminal.
> 
> What do you see when you run that command? Could you
> perhaps paste it in an email?
> 
> I wonder... On your Mac when you hit Apple+K ( Or in
> Finder "Go",
> "Connect to server" ) are you just typing in the
> servername and hitting connect?
> 
> Unless you explicitly specify SMB ( use a URL like
> smb://ubuntu-box )
> the Mac will default to connecting on TCP-548 (AFP
> over IP)

As another point, have you tried passing the IP
address rather than machine name?

Using Apple-K as above and supplying
smb://ipaddress/sharename as the server address gets
me my shared home directory from my Ubuntu desktop on
my work iBook.

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