I have a desktop machine that I have set up with Samba server. It seems to be set up OK since I can access it from my windows box. It isn't set up as a DC but just a member of my workgroup. I also have a netbook running 12.1. I have setup SAMBA client to the same workgroup. I can see my server when I go thru SAMBA shares, but when I click on it, I get an invalid address message. I want to be able to read and write files to my documents folder on my server from my netbook. Any help would be appreciated.

So have a Windows box, Linux (OpenSUSE) box and a netbook with (OpenSUSE) installed?

Okay so SAMBA is fine for the Windows <> Linux stuff, but for the Linux <> Linux stuff setup an NFS share (this can be the same directory as the SAMBA share) and use NFS on your netbook.

So I have been doing research on how to use NFS. On my client machine I get the message that "only root can mount 192.168.1.3/home/hamelc on ...." I want to make it so when I am logged on as hamelc on my netbook, I can read and write stuff to my server. What step am I missing?

You have three options here.

1) Using sudo or root to mount the drive

2) Putting the NFS share you wish to mount in the fstab file to it mounts it on boot.

The problem is with the second one is that if you can not access your server outside of your LAN then it will hang or cause funny side effects to things trying to resolve to that NFS share.
If always have access to your server (your server is visible to the world) then there are no problems because the netbook can mount the share at boot up without issue. Although this in itself is a bad idea the reason for it being a bad idea is because NFS shares or SAMBA shares should never be exposed to the outside.

3) Setup VPN on your server and connect to it that way then mount the share with sudo this way everything is encrypted when you leave the internal network so there is no risk of exposure.

I do have it in my FSTAB file. Here is the line--
192.168.1.3:/home/hamelc /home/hamelc nfs defaults 0 0

When I start Dolphin it shows up along the left side, but when I click on it I get an error message.

thanks,

Chris

Just in case, see this.

http://doc.opensuse.org/documentatio...e/cha.nfs.html

Thanks,

I had already found this article. I'll keep plugging away at it.

Chris

Can you please post the exact error message and can you also post the contains of your /etc/fstab?

I finally got it working. I finally found an article that lead me through it "cookbook" style. It had me editing the various configuration files instead of using YAST. Anyway it worked. I am putting a link below if anybody is interested.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/server.html