-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Costa wrote:

I'm using samba to connect to the shared folders...

Thanks,

G T Smith wrote:

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Fernando Costa wrote:

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Hi all! I have a desktop computer with Windows XP Home and I'm not able to connect to it through my wireless network with my laptop with openSUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.5.7, I can see it but I'm not able to access it, I have shared the folders within Windows, set the firewall, but nothing... However, when I'm working with th Windows machine I can see my openSUSE machine an access it, so I can access from Windows machine to openSUSE machine but not the other way around... I also have Ubuntu installed in my laptop and from Ubuntu I can access the windows machine without problems... Any help will be appreciated, Are you using smbfs or cifs to connect, and have you downloaded the last kernel update. SuSE only ship with cifs, Ubuntu I am told have both. The last kernel update seems to have broken cifs (at least in my case).

Try ...

mount -t cifs -o username=<username> //<server name/<share> <mountpoint> <return>

at the command line...

Where ...

username = your windows username mountpoint = directory to mount share

and see what response you get...

You will need to do this as root...

BTW this is probably only usable as a connection test.. you will probably need to pass some other options to have something useable...

Samba can connect to windows shares either with cifs or smbfs. XP Home has limited support for sharing and only supports workgroup networking in a bit of a half crippled manner. As I said this is probably only useful as a connection check, as you are more likely to get a more detailed error response. The main problem will be finding out what is happening at the XP end. CIFS is the Common Internet Filing System which is a later protocol used to access Windows network shares. The cifs mount acts just like any other *nix mount. Check man page for 'mount.cifs' for more details... smbfs is an earlier version of the samba implementation of protocols for accessing windows shares (differences between cifs and smbfs are a bit involved), smbfs and its associated components are apparently being phased out. SuSE do not ship the smbfs support (but because of the way that cifs mounts shares they are no longer really required anyway). Before I get jumped on from a great height by others :-) this is a major over simplification of something which can get quite complex.... BTW. For some reason the problems I was originally having with cifs and the later kernel seem to have cleared up for as yet undetermined reasons. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGqTHaasN0sSnLmgIRAv/7AJ9h2hrb5NS9+tKkfGV9I/alb+rWEQCg2JL0 ivqDwMPkbQ6BtSLeVSkTSbI= =JZZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org