Re: Newbie - Using Samba client

[Richard Quintin <rquintin@vt.edu>]

Got it thanks.  I wasn't specifying my workgroup.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:23, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Janssen
> andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com
> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674
> Registered Linux User #267976
-- 
Richard Quintin, DBA
Information Systems & Computing, DBMS
Virginia Tech