Comment 5 for bug 297372

Thanks for the clarification, but I'm still not 100% clear. How exactly is this checkout performed? I'm assuming it must be something like:

* Use Windows Explorer to browse to a directory where you want a local branch.
* Right-click and from the Tortoise context menu, select "Create new Branch/Tree"
* You then must enter the location of the ubuntu branch - what exactly do you specify? given you mention SMB, I assume there must still be a local drive letter mapped, so you specify, eg, "X:\blah". Or do you use a UNC name of "\\server\foo"?

If the latter, then the problem will simply be that the network connection can't be established by bzr, and I believe you would find bzr itself, from the command-line, has the same issue - but I may be on the wrong track completely about exactly what is going on in the first place...