Problems with LinNeighborhood

slewis1972 · 10-25-2003, 11:26 AM

I have on my laptop - which runs latest samba, and Librante v2.8 as the distro got LinNeighborhood installed.

On my main pc - Windwos XP Pro I have shared a folder called Documents.

All hooked upto the local network.

I have run LinNeighborhood, and it can see the windows pc fine, and shows all the drives, and the shared folder. BUt every time I try and access it I get error 'Can't resolve address'

Any ideas?

Scott

Epyon · 10-25-2003, 11:52 AM

I get the same exact error and I have no idea what the problem is.

ivanatora · 10-25-2003, 03:48 PM

I don't know if that might help, but try access it via user. Do you have +s flag on smbmount?

slewis1972 · 10-26-2003, 08:31 AM

I can auto mount via samba as created an entry into fstab and then mounted it fine. But why LinNeighborhood wont work - dont know.

Added the windows pc ip in the hosts file aswell.

Scott

FXRS · 12-06-2003, 02:07 AM

I also cannot get to the files on other pc's. I can get in there, but when it comes to say mounting "my documents" on the other pc it won't do it.

SLewis extactly how did you do that? Sorry still a newb at Linux yet.

FX

ooIIEONoo · 12-06-2003, 02:56 AM

things to check..

has the lisa service started?

also is the smbclient service started.

when you scan the selected computer using LinNeighbourhood

do you right click or click on the mount button to mount .. Then enter any details..

SMB Username: must be a valid smb user and win pc user

SMB Password: "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""

if it works from a terminal then it will work from the LinNeighbourhood

make sure you can ping the name not the ip address from the linux machine

Epyon · 12-06-2003, 09:02 AM

Why do you need the Lisa service? Isn't that KDE specific? What about the people running Gnome or some other WM?

AFAIK, there is no smbclient service. It's only a ftp like program to access smb shares.

Code:

tom@raptor tom $ smbclient //raptor/pub
Password:
smb: \> ls
  .                                   D        0  Fri Nov 28 14:02:58 2003
  ..                                  D        0  Fri Nov 28 15:02:31 2003
  stuff.txt                                  246  Sun Nov  9 20:52:13 2003
  stuff.txt~                                 132  Sun Nov  9 20:48:22 2003
  demo3.wmv                               729274  Fri Nov 28 12:47:51 2003
  dvdshrink30beta5.zip                    267973  Sun Nov 16 14:30:50 2003
 
                36866 blocks of size 524288. 24105 blocks available
smb: \>

Code:

tom@raptor tom $ smbmount //raptor/pub mnt/RAPTOR/pub/
Password:
tom@raptor tom $ ls mnt/RAPTOR/pub
demo3.wmv  dvdshrink30beta5.zip  stuff.txt  stuff.txt~
tom@raptor tom $

As you can see I can get in just fine using smbclient or smbmount from the command line. LinNeighborhood still refuses to work. I know I'm using the correct information to get in. It just spits out the "Can't resolve address" error. Even if I go by my IP, which I shouldn't have to, I still get the same error.