For reasons I will not go into Windoze trashed my hard disc and forced me to re install Mandrake 8.0 Network browsing using LISa had previously been working, but after the reinstall I could not get it to work despite having succeeded previously. Checking the newbie archive I saw that many other newbies had had similar troubles and had not had a satisfactory reply. So when I found the answer I thought it worth posting it on the mailing list. Not only does LISa require a configuration file, lisarc to be stored somewhere where LISA can find it on startup, as has been reported several times in the archives, but there is a second common problem which is that even when the Lisa configuration has been defined in Control Center/Networking it is still only possible to use konquerer to browse the network when logged in under root. Many newbies found like myself that when logged in under a normal user any attempt to browse using konquerer would give a message "Networking has not been set up. Go to control Center/Networking and set up the parameters you see there" However these parameters can only be set up under root, and root already has no problem browsing the network. The solution I found in the kde e-mail archives here :- http://www.kde.com/maillists/show.php?q=control%20center%20LISa&f=1&l=20&sb=rank&o=d&v=search&mq=42184&m=392640 To fix the problem all you have to do is let knoqueror know that you have already set up the LISa config by placing a file called kio_lanrc in the .kde/share/config directory of each user. The contents of kio_lanrc should be :- AlreadyConfigured=true Support_FTP=0 Support_HTTP=0 Support_NFS=0 Support_SMB=0 Then it all works. Hope this helps some other poor soul who has been beating their head against the desk :)
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