Re: Newbie - Using Samba client

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Richard Quintin (<rquintin@vt.edu>) wrote:

> I want to
> a. Access "network neighborhood" shares
> b. Not share anything on my machine
> c. Not open any security holes
> 
> I've tried to muddle through without much luck.  What specifically do
> I need to do?

You need the smbclient package. If you want to mount windows shares,
install the smbfs package. There is also a package called
linneighborhood that provides a GUI. As far as I know KDE's file
manager and browser konqueror can also be used for this somehow.

Read the Samba Howto for more info:
<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html>

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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