access windows shared folders

[Bmag]

OK, this is driving me nuts.

I am running Debian Etch, fully up-to-date, and Gnome.

When I try to access my PC through a network connection I can't get the past the authentication. I can access all PCs that don't have password protected accounts, and I can remote desktop into the PC perfectly fine. Just whenever i try to navigate to the shared folders I get an authentication pop-up. It asks for a domain, I tried leaving it empty, just 1 space, and the name of the workgroup the PC is part of, but nothing seems to work. I tried using my logon on the PC i am accessing, and tried just saying guest. I can't get past the authentication window. I'm pretty sure its something simple that I'm not thinking of, so any suggestion is good. Or is there an option that i don't know of? Or should i change a setting on the windows PC?

[DrEntropy]

What Winblows flavour?

Find the hosts and/or lmhosts file(s) on the MS box and make sure the Linux box is in the stack?

[IsaacKuo]

I'm not familiar with how to do it with GNOME, but I've done it using smb4k. Generally, I've had frustrating experiences connecting to password protected Windows shares directly with Nautilus (GNOME's file browser) or Konqueror (KDE's file browser). Using a seperate program like LinNeighborhood or smb4k to actually mount a share seems to work much better.

I stopped using LinNeighborhood after I tried out smb4k because smb4k was all around much friendlier to use and it integrated perfectly with KDE. I don't know if there's a GNOME equivalent of smb4k. You can try out LinNeighborhood, but be aware that it takes some tweaking and it's not really intuitive. Smb4k is very intuitive--it's almost like Windows Network Neighborhood in a lot of ways. But LinNeighborhood is kind of weird.