connect linux mint 14 to network

ABenz99

ABenz99

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When I had mint 10, I could open a the network folder and all the computers in my home network would appear, and I could transfer files between them. Now there is only one folder called "Windows Network" I am not able to open this folder, it says "server unable to mount to location".
 
Linux mint 10 worked fine with windows and linux networks. Is there something diffrent I need to do on mint 14?
 
I've never used Mint before I mainly use Arch/Ubuntu/Fedora but one way to get around this would be to take more of a manual approach.

That is, finding the IP address of the other computer you're connecting to (the share) and use the mount command to mount the share to a folder.

In Windows you can find the IP in the network and sharing center, or command prompt ipconfig. In linux to find your IP it's usually ifconfig in terminal.

You would first have to make a folder to mount the share into. It would go something like this (open a terminal)
Code: 
sudo -i
mkdir /FileShare
chmod 777 /FileShare
mount -t cifs -o username=[your windows username],password=[your password] //192.168.x.x/[ShareName] /FileShare/

The 192.168.x.x is the IP address of the computer sharing the folder.

And, given you have given the user account (in windows) access to the share in windows (either read only or writable) and also have security access (NTFS permissions) to the shared folder, you should be able to access it this way.

Not as easy/covenient but, that's what is fun about Linux. Sometimes requires a little effort to get it working but there's always a way.
 
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