Lo all,

I have Samba 3.0.0 installed on Slack 9.1 on my laptop...

Everytime i try accessing any of my family's computers (running windows) through
smb://192.168.0.x in konqueror, it works fine.. but when i try to copy or move files from their machines to mine, it starts copying, slows down, then stalls after a few seconds of operation... it does it every time with any machine i connect to..

I was wondering if i'm doing anything wrong, or if there is a fix / alternative to that..

Thanks

Don't know if this will help;
1. setup a mount point for the windows box in /mnt as /mnt/<computername> and use smbmount to mount the windows box.
-or-
2. check out linneighborhood
http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/index.html

thanks,
smbmount //192.168.0.2/folder /mnt/x
works. and allows me to copy the files too. It's a little annoying that connecting directly to them then copying files didnt work...

One last question.. if they had a folder with spaces and brackets.. how would i type that in? Say a folder called
Dad 1 (c)
my guess is something like
smbmount //192.168.0.2/Dad \1 \(c) /mnt/x

but its having problems with the brackets... =/

Don't know, maybe "Dad 1 (c)". See what the samba docs say about it. IIRC, I always had problem with the konqueror smb:// thing. gnome's nautilus smb:// stuff works much better. Linneighborhood is pretty cool.

You're close, use backslashes, but place them before the space vs after. Like so:

smbmount //192.168.0.2/Dad\ 1/ /mnt/x

You can also add a username, workgroup and etc if the share is protected:

smbmount //192.168.0.2/Dad\ 1/mnt/x -o username=xushi

Just remember that when you mount a share you need to mount the actual share and not a folder within the share. Like if you are sharing the entire c drive, then mount c:

smbmount //192.168.0.2/c /mnt/x

Then you can move anywhere within the share you want. The use of "c" above assumes that you named the share c when you set the share up in Windows. The name you give the share in windows, will be what samba sees it by regardless of what the folder is named on windows, if that makes any sense.

You can see what's shared with this command:

smbclient -L 192.168.0.2

If you need a username & password, then add a "-U user" to the end.

As to the konqueror & Samba 3.0 issue, I never got the 2 working completely, although you should be able to at least copy a file on windows to linux with konqueror. But as far as I know, Konqueror does not have write support through samba. Meaning I don't think you can copy a file to Windows from it, or even delete a file on windows with it.