How can I access windows shares from XFCE w/ Thunar~?

[bruceleejr]

I read a bunch of stuff like:

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chown -R root.root /etc/

but I get

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operation not permitted

I also get stuff like:

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sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

I can't even click on anything in "etc" because Im not a sudoer or whatever

So I know this has something to do with Samba or something like that. I think I have Samba installed because I see "samba" in "etc" and stuff but I don't know how to actually open it up as an application lol


Also Synaptic Package Manager does not open up in XFCE either so I am unable to find anything through there. It's probly only for Gnome.

Everything is shared on my XP PC, how can I access them from Linux Mint 9 - Isadora w/ XFCE|Thunar~??

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If you install gvfs, then you can do gvfs-mount smb://[windows share] from the command line.
It will mount to ~/.gvfs. You can then use thunar to navigate to those locations.
-Hinto