Konqueror-Samba Not Letting me access SMB shares
 

i've compiled samba from source on my notebook. i connect via a wireless connection and can successfully browse windows share on other boxes on the network when i use the CLI (smbclient \\machine_name\share) , but when i go into konqueror and try to browse the network using smb:\\\machine_name, this is the error i'm getting :

An error occurred while loading smb:/tomatoes:


Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_smb'.


i've googled this and couldn't locate anything that would help me with this problem. if anyone's encountered this before i would appreciate it if there's a way around it.
TIA

kio_smb...is that a module that isn't in your kernel or hasn't been loaded?

Try:

smb://computername

watch the /

Do you run smbclient as root? I think in order for konqueror to access smb share you have to chmod a couple of files

chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmnt /usr/bin/smbumount

i ran konqueror as root (through run and 'kdesu konqueror')... i'm gonna try to chmod those files and see what comes up.
also, another thing i noticed was , i installed smb4k and running it as root , it comes up with the error that says, couldn't locate smbmount .... and when i click OK it just shuts the program off. i also recently compiled my kernel to 2.6.10 to get ACPI support for my notebook and i did specify smb file system under file systems > Network file systems. is that the only place i needed to specify or did i need to do something else (specify another module) to have this working.

TIA

i tried to chmod those file but i get a

chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/smbmnt': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/smbmount': No such file or directory

do i need to recompile samba again or worse, recompile my kernel. here's a section from my .config under /usr/src/linux:

CONFIG_SMB_FS=y

any suggestions would be gladly appreciated. thanks

You definitely DO NOT want to chmod /usr/bin/smbmount

It looks as though you don't have the samba package installed. The samba package is not the same thing as the kernel extension you mentioned.

What does

ls -l /usr/bin/smb*

show?

this is the output of ls -l /usr/bin/smb*

It appears that you do not have smbmnt, smbmount, or smbumount.

here's mine
Why did you choose not to use the slackware samba package?

initially i had ubuntu on my notebook, but i got fed up with it (being used to slackware for so long now..) so when i was installing slack on my notebook i guess one of the disks might have been scratched and whilst installing samba, it gave me an error that the samba-3.x.tgz package couldn't be installed, so i skipped it for then only to think i would later install it via the source packages, which i did. is there any way to uninstall the samba source i've installed right now and just mount the slack cd and reinstall it again ??

Did you make a package w/ checkinstall, or did you just run 'make install'?

If you made a package you can just remove it. Sometimes you can run 'make uninstall' and it will remove the program, but that depends on whether or not the program makers made it that way. I don't know if that's the case with samba or not.

However, if the missing files are in /usr/local/samba/bin just adding symlinks in /usr/bin might fix your issues.

just wanted to let you all know that i fixed the problem. you were right since i had compiled samba from source i didn't have some files needed for konqueror to access smb. so i went to the samba source directory, did a make uninstall, it removed all the modules. went to the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories and removed all the symlinks, downloaded the samba tgz package from slackware.com, and it works now. thanks for all your help.
you rock!!