windows 7 and puppy linux (YASSM) connect to samba. samba is running on slackware 14.1. Because puppy linux connects to the samba server I'm sure the smb-conf file on the server is not the issue. I would prefer to use YASSM in slackware as it is so much easier to search, select, mount, unmount and disconnect via YASSM. Does anyone know of a YASSM package for slackware? any help would be much appreciated thank you

As best as I can tell, yassm seems to only be available to Puppy Linux.

Based on your post, are you having problems with samba shares on Slackware? Is this a different machine than the samba server running Slackware 14.1?

While there may not be a fancy GUI in Slackware to set up samba shares, I usually just access the server's shares right from my file manager (I use KDE, so it's usually with Konqueror or Dolphin, I can never remember which one). I can also access those shares on my laptop running Windows 7 without issue.

If you're having problems with your samba, give us the details and we can see what we can figure out.

seems all I had to do was type smb://server/share in thunar address bar.
I read mountains of docs, but mount -t cifs //xxxxxxxxx/etc. was not what I wanted
and automounting in fstab wasn't a viable option as the server is not always running
and clients will hang during boot looking for something that isn't there.

I know with some file managers you can set up favorites/bookmarks/shortcuts to network shares so it is easier to connect to them in the future. I don't use thunar, but it generally seems pretty featureful, so it probably has a similar ability.