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I'm running RHEL4-Update 2 on my Linux box in a network with a few other WinXP machines. I've used Gnome desktop but am switching to KDE and I cannot get network browsing to work in KDE. Actually, in KDE I can manually run Nautilus --browser and set the location to smb:/// and get a full view of my network much like Network Neighborhood in WinXP.
From the Window's machines I can see my Linux box and files just fine. But not the same story from my Linux box in KDE. Using Konqueror and location remote:/lan, I get a list of folder icons with ip addresses of the machines on my network. And this is useless. If I click on one, it pushes down to a folder labeled smb and when I click on it, it says that file or folder smb:/192.168.x.x does not exist.
If I type smb:/// in the location of firefox, it at least shows me the name of my workgroup. And if I use smb://mywkgrp as the location, I get a list of all the machines on my network with their real names. But when I click on them, firefox tries to open them as a text file. However, if it enter smb://pcname, I can navigate thru the folders successfully.
Even though I have connectivity between my Linux machine and the other XP machines on my network. I still don't have a convenient way to navigate from within KDE. Or at least I don't know HOW to do it yet.
Please help... Going bald fast!!
If you've used Gnome's network browser, or WinXP's network neighborhood, then you know what functionality I'm trying to find in KDE.
Thanks.
