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Quoting Ryan Coates <ryan.coates@gmail.com>:

> I'm not sure if this is a problem with gnome, or if i've missed a
> vital program somewhere
> but under red hat and slax, i used to be able to access files on SMB
> shares and view them, i get an error saying i cannot do that now and
> must copy the file to my machine for viewing, is this a common and
> simple problem?

Do you have the SMB share mounted in the local filesystem? Also, is the share
mounted ro / rw? You certainly shouldn't need to copy it to the local machine
for viewing. Just out of interest, what kind of file are you trying to view?


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----- Forwarded message from mark@brier.me.uk -----
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:33:41 +0000
From: mark@brier.me.uk
Reply-To: mark@brier.me.uk
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] view files over SMB
To: Ryan Coates <ryan.coates@gmail.com>

Quoting Ryan Coates <ryan.coates@gmail.com>:

> i compiled the smbfs into the kernel, and now i can mount the drive
> and this removes the 'must have a local copy' problem but i still cant
> access from a file browser pointed to smb://machinename/c$
> is this a security setting perhaps? or a missing program

If you have mounted the drive, just cd to the dir where it is mounted, ie

# mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.1/Share /mnt/share \
-o username=mark,password=pa55w0rd,uid=mark,gid=users,rw

# cd /mnt/share







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