Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pearce
Try LinNeighborhood works for me jason On Tuesday 15 October 2002 22:14, you wrote: Dear all, My University loves M$, to the highest degree! A problem I face with using Linux is how to see and access all those computers on the 'Network Neighbourhood'. It always seems like such a challenge

Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-16 Thread Roberto Armenteros
I am in the same situation as you but I get around it by using the comands smbclient and smbmount. First setup samba and configure smb.conf dont forget to add a wins server if any. The way I see which hosts are around me this doesnt have to be the best way, but it works for me is running

[expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-15 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, My University loves M$, to the highest degree! A problem I face with using Linux is how to see and access all those computers on the 'Network Neighbourhood'. It always seems like such a challenge to get files, etc. off people - we usually resort to burning CD's. I WILL NOT swap my

Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You will be dealing with samba to get this working. I was able to do most of what you desire at my old university using samba. I am partial to a nifty app called komba. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27429

Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-15 Thread mike
I also attach to a network that uses MS too, and have really liked LinNeighborhood, which works much like Network Neighborhood in Windows. under LM 9.0 it was a little different to setup than in earlier versions, but I can see any and all boxes and printers shared on the network just fine. and