Fwd: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #836: link beginner docs for linux and xfce desktop from main help page

[Alex Mandel]

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 <trac_osgeo at osgeo.org>
> Reply-To: 	warmerdam at pobox.com
> To: 	undisclosed-recipients:;
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> 
> 
> #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
> 
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