Known problem, have seen it mentioned in a list of gripes about the appalling upgrade to dapper (not my words). Google may find the answer, which I believe was released or published not long after dapper.
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:55:42 +1200 Douglas Royds wrote: > Yet another thing that broke with my Dapper upgrade. Nautilus now says: > > smb:/// is not a valid location > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba says: > > If you want to access shared folders, drives and printers on a > Windows computer (that is, act as a client with Windows servers), > you only need a smbfs plugin. > ... > Ubuntu and Gnome make it easy to access files on a windows network > share... Open the Computer Menu, then click on "Network". You'll see > a "windows network" icon, open it. > > I have smbfs 3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1 > I can ping other boxes on the network OK. > > Thanks, > Douglas. > > > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
