Comments on: smb:// url from xp pro

Question: smb:// url from xp pro

Aaorn — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:30:34 -0800

How do I connect to a network identified by smb://sub.domain.tld/share$ from XP Pro? It works fine in OS X (of course) using "Go->Connect to Server", but on Windows neither IE nor Firefox nor My Network Places seems to understand this kind of URL. What do I need?

By: curtm

curtm — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:32:45 -0800

Just use \\sub.domiain.tld\share$.oco

SMB is the native protocol for Windows networks.

By: curtm

curtm — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:34:38 -0800

Leave off the ".oco" at the end--I don't know where that came from...

By: Aaorn

Aaorn — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:36:02 -0800

Thanks curtm! I guess it was too simple to Google. ("Samba in xp" was getting me nowhere.)

By: fvw

fvw — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:28:17 -0800

For future googling, Samba is just a reimplementation of the SMB protocol, windows doesn't use Samba.