Help! LinNeighborhood doesn't work!

watha · 10-02-2005, 05:58 PM

Thanks for the advice to try LinNeighborhood. Indeed, it looks like the sort of program I need. But it doesn't seem to be working. When I run it, it identifies the shared folders on my Windows machine. But when I ask it to mount one of them, I get an error message: "Cannot resolve address."

I don't get it. If it can "see" the folder, why can't it resolve the address? What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

solveit · 10-12-2005, 02:11 AM

http://freshmeat.net/projects/smb4k/

watha · 10-12-2005, 06:39 PM

Ohhhh baby! That's more like it. Worked right out of the box. Where's this program been all my life?

Thanks!

watha · 10-13-2005, 06:36 PM

Uh oh. Smb4k worked until I upgraded to SUSE 10. Now I get this message.

WARNING: The "printer admin" option is deprecated
smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1000,1000)
smbmnt failed: 1

What did I do wrong? Thanks.

watha · 10-13-2005, 08:07 PM

This is nuts. I figured out how to change smbmount to suid root, and now I get this message:

WARNING: The "printer admin" option is deprecated
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
1748: Connection to MAIN failed
SMB connection failed

So I must set it to setuid root, except that I'm not supposed to setuid root. This is crazy. Help!

solveit · 10-14-2005, 02:43 PM

As a workaround, try running smb4k as 'root' user.

From console type "su -" and then type in root password and then "smb4k".

watha · 10-14-2005, 03:04 PM

Yeah, I tried that last night and it worked. So for now I can use this workaround.

But I still can't figure out why the software worked fine under SUSE 9.3 but got all goofy when I upgraded to SUSE 10. Strange.

I suspect it has to do with an upgraded version of KDE. Not sure why that should matter, but perhaps it does. Notice that when I ran chmod on smb4k to get suid root, it said that "libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root." I suspect it's a KDE library issue...