smb:// url from xp pro

August 3, 2005 8:30 PM

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?
posted by Aaorn to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: Just use \\sub.domiain.tld\share$.oco

SMB is the native protocol for Windows networks.
posted by curtm at 8:32 PM on August 3, 2005

Leave off the ".oco" at the end--I don't know where that came from...
posted by curtm at 8:34 PM on August 3, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks curtm! I guess it was too simple to Google. ("Samba in xp" was getting me nowhere.)
posted by Aaorn at 8:36 PM on August 3, 2005

For future googling, Samba is just a reimplementation of the SMB protocol, windows doesn't use Samba.
posted by fvw at 5:28 AM on August 4, 2005