Browsing MS network using gentoo 2006.0

anti.corp · 04-14-2006, 07:29 AM

Hi,

When I browse the network for shares I see nothing, and I know that there are shares, I see them when I use my other OS's.

How do I make them visible for my gentoo?

Sincerely, Jorgen

Centinul · 04-14-2006, 08:50 AM

Are you using Samba? If not I recommend it. I got mine up and running in minutes thanks to the www.gentoo-wiki.com howto on it.

anti.corp · 04-14-2006, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Centinul

Are you using Samba? If not I recommend it. I got mine up and running in minutes thanks to the www.gentoo-wiki.com howto on it.

Yep im using samba. And you gotta be kiddin when you say 'I got it up and running in minutes'!!?

If not...just dont tell me

I allready checked you the wiki, but I was just looking if there were a 'short(er)' way around the subject.

Thanks for your reply.

Sincerely, Jørgen

Centinul · 04-14-2006, 09:04 AM

seriously all I had to do was install samba, then run the command

Code:

mount -t smbfs //IPADDRESS/SHARENAME  /mnt/SHAREDIRECTORY

and it worked for me....

::EDIT:: There are also two kernel options that need to be enabled.

Code:

 File systems  --->
   Network File Systems  --->
     < > SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)
and 
File systems  --->
   Network File Systems  --->
      <M> CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)

Let me know how it works out.

Emerson · 04-14-2006, 09:06 AM

http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/

anti.corp · 04-14-2006, 10:04 AM

I did the same thing as you did, and it worked!

Well I guess Im just to thorough when it comes to reading wiki's, manuals

Thanks for your help with this

And...I will try out the lisa project too. Thanks for pointing me to it Emerson.

regards