Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan

[Michael B Allen <mba2000@ioplex.com>]

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://

This should give you a list of workgroups. You can drill down from
there. The SMB URL draft indicates the full spec is:

  smb://[[[domain;]username[:password]@]server[:port]/[[share/[dir/]file]]]

but I don't think all of it works in KDE. Note server can be a workgroup
or server name. So if:

  smb://myworkgroup/

refers to a workgroup you should get a list of servers. But if:

  smb://myserver/

refers to a server you should get a list of shares. If you do:

  smb://myserver/share/path/to/dir/

you get a list of files.

Mike

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