How do I find my network shares (windows server)?

fjd0 · 07-31-2019, 10:09 AM

Sorry if this question is obvious to everyone except me.
I have tried Ubuntu on and off again over the years and was usually able to find my windows network. How do I do it with puppy. Looked at the networking aps and I figure a scan would pop up my networks and I take it from there, but I am stumped.

Any advice?

Frank

pan64 · 07-31-2019, 10:49 AM

did you try this already: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029...-current-users ?

fjd0 · 07-31-2019, 12:06 PM

Thanks Pan64 for the advice.
I went to the link and read the stuff and tried the command lines, but am still stuck. When I tried Ubuntu years ago, I was able to discover my network shares. Cant use Ubuntu on this very old machine I am trying to refurbish. I usually give up on Linux as I am not skilled enough to figure out stuff like this. I want to become better, but lost right at the beginning. What I had experienced with Ubuntu was a program that allowed Ubuntu to scan my network and find my shares. Then I (is it) mounted them and all was well.

Any advice is appreciated as I am stuck

Frank

teckk · 07-31-2019, 12:57 PM

For samba.

Code:

pacman -Ss samba
extra/libwbclient 4.10.5-1
    Samba winbind client library
extra/samba 4.10.5-1
    SMB Fileserver and AD Domain server
community/nautilus-share 0.7.3-8
    Nautilus extension to share folder using Samba
community/nemo-share 4.2.0-1
    Samba extension for Nemo
community/perl-crypt-smbhash 0.12-7
    Perl/CPAN Module Crypt::SmbHash : Perl-only implementation of lanman and nt md4
    hash functions, for use in Samba style smbpasswd entries.
community/smb4k 3.0.1-1
    A KDE program that browses samba shares

Everything that you need to know. It's for arch, but the basic info is universal.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/samba

Another one.
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001636.htm

You can also use ssh between machines. That would be putty on the windows machine.

You can set up a simple web server on one machine and share files
to another machines web browser. Python will do that real easy.

You'll have to set up your machine using what you wish.

pan64 · 08-01-2019, 01:13 AM

would be better to show us what did you try exactly and what happened (what was displayed exactly)

fjd0 · 08-01-2019, 12:06 PM

Teckk
Thanks for the assist advice. Did a lot of reading and experimenting and still no share that I can see on all my windows & android machines in my home network.
I tried typing in all the suggested codes in a terminal window and nothing happened for each one.
Tried turning off the default firewall.
Looked inside my router to identify the IP of the server I am trying to see.
I just cant figure it out. What is weird to me, is that every couple of years I have an old machine that I try Ubuntu with and usually am able to get the share going (same old server for years). Without access to my server, I have a problem with Puppy.

Pan64
I get that puppy has some buit in samba tools. I have experimented with all 4 I found….tried all the combinations of what I think my windows share looks like, and to no avail.

I can grab screen shots of what I see when I use the built in samba programs with the random tries that I make. Nothing seems even close to obvious. I am seeing the share name. I am seeing the IP address etc, but can not set up a share. Must be missing fundamental knowledge that would make Puppy too difficult to use. This perfectly good old machine will end up in land fill. I tried tinycore and found it way to difficult to get off the ground. I tried LUbuntu and it never disappoints, but even that light version, was too heavy for this old machine. Puppy works well enough, but no shares.

In windows, the folder I am trying to access is “storage space”. Normally, I can easily see it in windows as \\myservername

I just need some way an ap inside of Puppy to find and connect. I also have a NAS and was able to get it to connect, but I cant see the files in it….The NAS has a public function, I can see that one no problem. So I must be close.

Help out if you can and I can also start sending screenshots.

Thanks

FD

teckk · 08-01-2019, 01:52 PM

Have you read the docs and the forums?

http://wikka.puppylinux.com/Networking
http://wikka.puppylinux.com/Samba
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60204
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2163
https://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wir...in-Puppy-Linux
http://wikka.puppylinux.com/ChatRoom

ferrari · 08-01-2019, 02:16 PM

@fjd0: The samba discovery you desire relied on NetBIOS (supported by SMBv1 protocol). This has well-known security issues, and so has now been deprecated and usually disabled by default. There are numerous sources online discussing this...

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=273154
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2384959
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...B1/ba-p/425858
https://phabricator.kde.org/D18878

Anyway, you can still use the 'smbtree' command to find samba shares on a LAN as that uses SMB1 temporarily to make the discoveries.

It is also possible to save the required network URLs in your file manager for convenient access. (That's what I do with Dolphin in KDE for example.)

Mike_Walsh · 08-05-2019, 04:56 PM

@ fjd0:-

Have a look here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60204

I've been using this for years in Puppy, with complete success. Samba-TNG is a very lightweight 'fork' of 'full' SAMBA. ('Full' SAMBA makes my head spin, and is a complete, unadulterated PITA to set-up and get going.)

Mike.