KDE and network shared folder.

[Doug Stewart]

I am trying the KDE desktop and found that I cannot access  any folders on my XP machine.

Before I tried KDE I could browse my local net and find my shared folders on my XP machine, and could read and write to them but now (with  KDE) it asks for a name and password.

How do I change it so that it does not ask for the name and password?

Doug

[Frank Bax]

1) Create an account on XP system with username/password that matches
account credentials on your Linux system.

2) I think there's something on XP about sharing for anonymous users (no
authentication); but I don't recall exactly what that is at the moment.

[Doug Stewart]

I know what you are saying but why does it work with gnom and not in kde?

Doug

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[Frank Bax]

From your initial email it was not clear that you ever successfully
accessed your XP system from a Linux system. The "Before ... KDE"
reference could have been from other windows systems.

What you are trying to do is anonymous access to the shared folder on
XP. I don't know why it would be different between KDE/GNOME; but
knowing what it's called might help you use proper keywords in google.

You might try using the smbclient program to help diagnose problem:
smbclient -L XPserver -N
where XPserver is name of the XP system. To use ipaddr; the man page
suggests using '-I ipaddr'; but I used '-L ipaddr' and it worked. This
command might list shared folders on XP system; other servers on the
network and various workgroup names used on your LAN.

[Doug Stewart]

Thanks Frank.

I guess I am still not saying it the best way. :-)

Using GNOME and  Nautilus    I can copy or paste file to shared folders on my XP machine.

Now I log out and log back in using KDE
I now can see the shared folders on my XP machine but if I try to copy or paste a file to or from the shared folder, the Ubuntu with KDE asks me for a name and password.

Absolutely nothing else has changed just GNOME to KDE.

Any Ideas why?