smb:///sorry, could not display all the content......?

[Don Campbell]

chun lee wrote:

>Hi there:
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>Thanks for your replay.
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>>Message: 3
>>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:48:37 -0700
>>From: Don Campbell <donaldtcampbell at charter.net>
>>Subject: Re: smb:///sorry, could not display all the content......?
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Message-ID: <40B77B75.1030001 at charter.net>
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>>I have the same problem. I can get to a Windows box from my
>>linux box with "smbclient -L WindowsBoxName" and I get
>>asked for a username and password. I then get a listing from
>>the Windows box about what the shares are etc. I can also use
>>the Windows box's shared printer which I set up with a user name
>>and password in the printer config process.
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>Have you tried to copy the files from the listing across to your linux box?
>I just tried it using Mautilus, and it asked me for password and userword
>and then nothing happened (not even error messages). I thought I will try to
>copy the file that I can see in my /chunlee directory, not the ones in the
>folder that it can't display (/chunlee/some_folder).
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>Where is smbclient? I can't seem to use it. Also, where is config-samba
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smbclient is a command line utility. Try "man smbclient" for a list of 
switches. I haven't
tried anything fancy with it.

Actually it's "system-config-samba" and from the main gnome menu it's :
"system settings" --> "server settings" --> "samba"

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>>Nautilus never asked me for a user name or password.
>>It shows the various samba servers on the LAN but clicking
>>on them doesn't get a listing of the shares. It gets the same
>>"can't display" message.
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>Ya, I think I have two separate problems instead of one.
>1. having to retype password/username whenever I make a move
>2. can't see into the folder after /chunlee, and can't copy the things I can
>see across.
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>>In the config-samba gui I have given my UNIX name a
>>samba username and samba password that works for
>>smbclient but there is no change for nautilus.
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>>Prasanth Kumar wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:59 +0100, chun lee wrote:
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>>>>Hi there:
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>>>>I have just learned how to browse my other laptop (MacOSX) in Fedora. I got
>>>>to the stage where I can display the content at
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>>>>smb:///XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/chunlee
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>>>>But I got a error when trying to access folders in the /chunlee. The error
>>>>says 'sorry, could not display all the content of "some_folder" '. How can I
>>>>correct this?
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>>>>Also, it there a way to remember my username and password so that I don't
>>>>have to retype them whenever I make a move?
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks
>>>>
>>>>Yours
>>>>
>>>>CHUN
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