On 01/31/2011 06:06 AM, John Bennett wrote:
Trying to browse windows shares using Dolphin or Konqueror, and both come back with "
Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This might be caused by an enabled firewall." or similar. Samba is all installed and DOES work fine as far as connecting to other machines (eg smb://192.168.0.2/SharedDisk) and can see a list of shares using smbclient -L WindowsPC, just can't browse them in a file manager. Is there some other setup that needs to be done?? Thanks, John.
Opensuse 11.3, x64, KDE 4.5.5
John, I don't have an x64 setup to test against, but there is no reason you shouldn't be able to browse smb shares in either konqueror or dolphin. In system settings there is a setting that allows you to enter a default username and password for accessing windows shares. You might try setting this to see if it makes a difference (it shouldn't because you should be prompted if the share requires authentication - but who knows) Look at the konqueror URL format. I think you can simply browse smb shares by entering the url in the format you list above: (eg smb://192.168.0.2/SharedDisk). Give it a shot and look at the konqueror handbook to make sure that is the right format. Lastly, if I am working on a LAN with samba shares, I generally mount them locally to prevent OO, Gimp, etc. from complaining about editing files on a remote file system. That way you are accessing the remote shares via a local mount point. I generally just create the mount points under /mnt. Example: /mnt/box (primary share) /mnt/box-admin (admin share) /mnt/box-user (user home) You can have the shares automatically mounted on boot with a fstab entry: //SERVER/SHARENAME /mnt/MOUNTPOINT cifs \ noatime,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP 0 0 To prevent it from automounting on boot, but allow it to be mounted with a simple: # mount /mnt/MOUNTPOINT call, just add noauto to the options. If you want to allow the share to be user mounted add both 'users,noauto' to the fstab entry. Both konqueror and dolphin should browse the smb shares without requiring a local mount, but if kde4 smbclient/smb4k is on the fritz, these are a couple of good fallbacks. HTH. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org