Try Dolphin (KDE's main file browser). This will let you know if it's Nautilus or Samba.
Cheers, Elcaset On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been having trouble connecting to my wife's Windows 7 machine from > my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. > > When I click Places > Network and then right-click [wife's machine] the > context menu that pops up offers "Open with videos", which it will try > to do if I let it. Videos (which looks like Totem) comes up and > complains. It takes several clicks on "Close" to clear. So, one question > is, how do I replace "Open with Videos" with "Files", which I believe is > the correct tool? > > If I right-click and choose "Open with" the first alternative is "Sound > Converter". After that is "Other Application..." If I choose "Other > Application..." I get: > > No applications available to open "smb-server-[wife's machine]" > Click "Show other applications", for more options, or "Find > applications online" to install a new application. > > "Show Other Applications" brings up a list that includes two entries > labeled "Files". Sometimes choosing one of them works. Other times > Nautilus crashes. When I start up Nautilus again, the connection to > [wife's machine] is there and I can browse to the folder I'm looking for. > > So, where can I find documentation that tells me what is actually going > on so I can try it from the command line, one step at a time, and see if > I can figure out why this works sometimes, and not others? > > And, just to make it interesting, I just tried to find the error message > Videos puts up by right clicking on [wife's machine] and clicking "Open > with videos". Nautilus presented me with a list of folders on [wife's > machine]. I right-clicked on "Users" and chose, "Open with files", but > it opened with Videos. The error message: > > An error occurred > > An audio or video stream is not handled due to missing codecs. You > might need > to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies > > I tried to close the error message box and found that there are seven > copies of it. I had to close them in the right order (by trial and > error) to get them to go away. > > The playlist pane in Videos shows a whole bunch of stuff in the folder > on [wife's machine]. > > I was able to close Videos. > > I tried again, got Videos instead of Files, got more than a dozen error > message boxes, finally got them all closed, closed Totem, and tried to > open by choosing Files from the other applications list, and Nautilus > crashed. After restarting Nautilus the connection to [wife's machine] is > present and works as expected. > > Sigh. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
