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Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan



Michael B Allen wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:21:43 -0400
> Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu> wrote:
> 
>> vjimenez@coopeservidores.fi.cr wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello i need your help i try to connect to my windows lan, with samba
>> > in KDE -debian but i don`t find the icon samba to connect it
>> 
>> Samba is the underlying software, not the GUI frontend. You didn't
>> mention what version of Debian you are using, but in Unstable, I searched
>> for Samba browsers and found several promising packages using the
>> following:
>> 
>> apt-cache search "samba" | grep "browser"
> 
> Actually KDE has builtin SMB browser support. Never tried it but I beleive
> you can just type in an SMB URL in the file manager (Konqueror?) address
> bar like:
> 
>   smb://

I had heard this works as well, but when I tried it, Konqueror changed it to
http://smb/ and tried to resolve it (which didn't work). However, using

smb://server-name/

worked just fine.

Adam



Adam



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