How to browse windows network in ubuntu 13.10?

Question

While trying to access a Windows network it shows:

Unable to access location, Failed to retrieve share list from server, No such file or directory

How to solve this, and connect with Windows shared folders?

Solution 1

assuming you have installed samba,

on the command line, you can explicity list all shares on a given host with this command

smbclient -L <hostname> -U cashew 

-U is the username option

This command might be helpful, when nautilus might not list all hosts and shares that are in fact available.

Connect to a SMB share with

smbclient //server/share -U user

Enter you user password.

You can connect directly with

smbclient //server/share -U user%password

but your password will show on the screen (less secure).

Once connected you will get a prompt that looks like this :

> smb: \>

Type "help" , without quotes, at the prompt for a list of available commands.

Solution 2

Be sure to install sambaCTRL + ALT + T

sudo apt-get install samba

Now try it again.

Comments

[Admin]

what do i enter as the hostname and username? is it the name of the computer i want to connect to? what if i do not know it and what to connect to it?

[v2r]

Can you give a detailed description, on how to built the smb share into Ubuntu, please?!

[Damn Vegetables]

So, I can connect to and see smb directories in the terminal, but Nautilus does not show or connect to. This answer only shows how to connect in the terminal, but does not provide how to fix the Nautilus problem. Is there any way?