Am Samstag, den 07.07.2012, 12:41 +0100 schrieb Ron Leach: > I'd > always wondered why the system wouldn't see Windows shares, though. I > actually hadn't realised there needed to be another program installed. > > It would have helped us, at the start, if it had been in.
Not really. Please note that seeing the shares or browsing the network is something different than connecting to a share. Even if you cannot browse the LAN, you can still connect to a share or a host if you know it's name. Browsing requires a master browser. This usually is a Windows server and if there is no server but only client OSes like XP, Vista or Windows 8 (not Windows 8 Server), they assign the master on a random base. This is very unreliable, even for Windows, so you better set up Samba as the master browser. Long story short: Adding the package will not magically make all Windows network functionality work, you still need to configure and start samba to get the whole thing. Best regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
