rmcellig wrote:OK. I think I am making progress. I installed the thunar shares option . I do have Samba installed and I did restart my machine.
"You may need to install Samba. Check your user permissions (usershare group) and re-login"
What does this mean? Like I said I have Samba installed.
Samba is a major pain in the neck. I've been battling it since 2006. The trouble is, every blog and forum post -- including my posts in these forums -- suggest different fixes that work for a while and then stop for some reason. Anyway, what did you do in /etc/samba/smb.conf? See the instructions in the following Xfce Wiki post to set it up:
thunar-shares-plugin. Mind you, the last time that article was modified was in February 2009, and the Linux Samba software has been through several revisions since then. Anyway, give it a try.
I came across a very good Samba tutorial on the Web by an Ubuntu user:
SAMBA_V1-1.pdf. He doesn't use 'security = share' on the target Linux machine(s); he uses 'security = user'. Read his tutorial, but my understanding is that it means you have to set up a Samba user on the target Linux machine who corresponds to an existing Linux user on that machine, and you access the remote share by supplying a user name and password when prompted. This is the secure and recommended way to do it (I think 'security = share' may even be deprecated in the latest version of Samba). If the target machine is a Windows machine, you would have to enter when prompted the user name of a Windows user of the target machine (depending on how you have set up the share on the Windows machine, since you may have just set up the Windows machine to have a public shared folder not requiring a password). But have a look through his tutorial. Then you can explain it to me!