samba shares in FC4

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Feb 26 13:48:28 UTC 2006


On Sunday 26 February 2006 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:58, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 12:31 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > My frustrations are definitely fedora-related.  Every box on the lan
> > > has a public directory (and therefore every linux box has a samba
> > > service to control it).  Konqueror's LAN browser can see the Mandriva
> > > boxes on the LAN, but not the Fedora ones or the Windows ones.  The
> > > samba shares are working - they can be mounted manually.  I simply want
> > > user-friendly browsing to work.
> >
> > Don't know if this would be double work for you, but why not setup NFS
> > to use on the linux side?
>
> It doesn't feel worth it, Mike.  Samba can mount.  Fish can mount.  Why
> bother with a third protocol?  I'll just set up desktop links to each
> mount, but I don't like that solution. I like a fairly clean desktop.
>
Just found the solution - the kde panel applet 'Network Folders' provides easy 
browsing, and all the available shares are correctly listed.  Definitely more 
use-friendly, and I can keep my desktop clean ;-)

Anne
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