That can't be it, I use windows shares at work all the time. However I've never tried with Thunar I usually use nautilus which is the default in Gnome. I'll have to do some testing.
Thanks, Alex On 11/20/2011 03:05 AM, Micha Silver wrote: > > One of the things I noticed: booting the LiveDVD on a machine with WinXP > auto-mounts the windows drives. However on a Win7 machine this does not > happen. > Probably due to NTFS v6.1 on Win7? Maybe the same problem exists mounting > samba > shares. Newer Windows 2008 servers (and probably Win7 also) have changed the > protocol somewhat. Maybe the samba version (and ntfs support) that comes with > Ubuntu doesn't support these? > > Micha > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #836: link beginner docs for linux and > xfce > desktop from main help page > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:20:14 -0000 > From: OSGeo <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > > > #836: link beginner docs for linux and xfce desktop from main help page > -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- > Reporter: hamish | Owner: live-demo@⦠> Type: enhancement | Status: new > Priority: normal | Milestone: > Component: LiveDVD | Keywords: docs, 5.5 > -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- > > Comment(by hamish): > > also we should add a few paragraphs to that page stating how to connect to > a samba remote shared network drive. I think we've already got the needed > software on the disc, we just have to explain how to use it and perhaps > add it to our list of things to test before release. > > IIRC think Alex had some problems with samba(?), but for me it worked > fine, ...shrug > > It might be as simple as typing `smb://servername/path/to/files/` into the > Thunar file manager GUI. > > > Hamish > > -- > Ticket URL:<https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/836#comment:1> > OSGeo<http://www.osgeo.org/> > OSGeo committee and general foundation issue tracker. > > This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
