Hi all... I have been working on this all night. I found a great article on here that helped me get as far as I did but I keep getting an error. Here is my setup. I have my Linux box with a shared folder and I have a W2k box with a share on it. When I run LinNeighborhood I can see the windows share fine but when I go to mount it, I received " Can't Resolve Address". This has me stump because when I go to the W2K box I can connect to the linux share without a problem. And if it can not resolve address, How would it even see the share on the W2k box in the first place in LinNeighborhood?

I am using Suse 9.1. Like I said guys, this has me stumped. Any ideas?

Thanks

sorry AMDMhz,
i dont have a solution BUT i had the same problem using LinNeighbourbood... i evenually just decided to use the mount command with the following syntax:


You will then be asked for a password, enter the password and then you will be able to access all your files through the mount point /mnt/computer/share

Hope that helped,

Nathan

Thank you, that shared the folder. Did you ever have trouble setting up a shared printer from a W2k box to the Linux box?

I've neva used 2k for longer than a week in my whole life! BUT XP is basocallly the same (except for the pretty pics, sounds and bugs). I managed to set up a printer a few times in linux (connected to a XP Box) using something that I think was called 'Printer Administration" in the KDE MENU >> Settings. I currently dont have linux up and running so I cant verify this (in the middle of builidng Linux from scratch).

I recomend using the generic printer driver and playing around with the settings for it if you cannot find a driver for the printer you are tryin to install.

Hope that helped,
Nathan

My understanding is that LinNeighbourbood is dead if you're using samba 3. BTW, get the newest samba from Suse's site, 3.07 or something like that.

I got rid of LinNeighbourbood for the same reasons. I now use smb4k, a much better mounter/browser. Get the newest version, it's something like .401a or something like that. Check their home page.

I read somewhere that to get LinNeighbourbood to work, you had to edit the code and make some changes to it. Get rid of it.

Of course, make sure you have chmod +s the appropriate samba executables, because without suid, it won't run properly as a user. Do a google search if you don't know what I'm talking about.

If you have problems finding a Suse rpm for smb4k, let me know.

Harry

Hi,
I have a question on smbk4. I installed it using yast on suse 9.1 and i cant seem to find the application to open it. ive tried alt+f2, i tried clicking the green gecko to open a the start menu and ive looked every where in there. or it could just be really late im i must be tired. any pointers?


Thank You

Your kidding, right. Have you siimply typed smb4k from the command line prompt?

ok well i went to the directory from the command prompt which is located in /user/local/kde/bin and i executed the file smb4k and it gave me an error message saying

smb4k: WARNING: KXMLGUIClient::setXMLFile: cannot find .rc file smb4kui.rc

i dont know what that is but the version of smb4k is Version: 0.4.1a-1 .well this is weird, if you can figure this one out i would greatly appreciate it.

also when i looked in yast it said that the file is protected do not modify and it also has a lock around it. ive tried to change it to keep but that did not seem to work. could this be a permission issue? thanks

I got the same error. I installed smb4k in the /opt/smb4k directory. I solved the problem by adding in /usr/bin the following link:
<code>
ln -s /opt/smb4k/share/apps/smb4k/smb4kui.rc smb4kui.rc
</code>
Naturally, you would have to enter the path to where the file is in your system.

hi im still new at the linux command line. ive installed an rpm from the command line like 1 time but that was a long time ago. i normally just have yast install it. could you please tell me how to install smb4k step by step from the command line i would greatly appreciate it. thanks