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Question #58092 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
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SCCY posted a new comment:
I have been having similar problems from Ubuntu 10.04, to 10.10, 11.04,
11.10 and now 12.04. I feel REALLY inconvenient without having to browse
shared files on a Windows-based LAN network.

At work, almost all computers in the LAN network are Windows (>90%
Windows XP), and I am the only Ubuntu user in the network. Colleagues
are exchanging files frequently through the Windows' shared folders
almost everyday and I am the odd one out. I can't browse any Windows
machine and files on the LAN network. I have to stupidly disturb my
colleauges every time and beg them to copy those shared files on a USB
flash drive just for me. I feel really embarrassed about this each time.

Would it be because my colleagues' machines are having non-ASCII
(Chinese) names? For example, when I go to "Printing", trying to type a
smb address on the printer-finding GUI text field, the text field just
wouldn't let me type in any non-ASCII characters.

It makes me look stupid using Ubuntu, since file sharing is like a
beginner feature for Windows users. My colleagues do not need to
previously learn any file/printer-sharing knowledge and can figure out
how to share things on Windows, while I have to install this and config
that on my Ubuntu box, and, worst, no success in the end. Honestly,
Samba has been really giving me nightmares since the switch from Windows
to Ubuntu 10.04 years ago. This is the only barrier why I still can't
persuade my friends and colleagues to switch to Ubuntu.

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