file://somecomputer/

[bryan.6]

when i'm in windows, i can get files from other people's computers by typing 'file://somecomputer/' into the 'Run' command, or in network neighborhood. what exactly am i doing? is it connecting to a windows shared folder? how can i go about doing this through linux... 'cause it'd be grand if i could. i don't even know where to start looking, should i start by looking at smb? point me in some direction, please. thanks.
bryan

[j79zlr]

smbclient -L //computername

will list all available shares, then to connect to one

smbclient //computername/sharename

This assumes you have the same user/pass on both machines, and you have samba set up.

[nouse66]

if you have kde installed (and samba of course) you can type "smb://computername" in konqueror to get a windows like interface.

[bryan.6]

"This assumes you have the same user/pass on both machines"

can i reasonably assume this? there are no passwords on these shares as far as i know... am i using a guest account? i don't really know anything about what's going on.


(i'm on a gentoo machine) i did an emerge search smb... is pam_smb what i want? there doesn't look like there is anything else worth emerging.

[nouse66]

just "emerge samba". samba has guest accounts that should be good for something but i just ended up having to make an account on the win2k machine i wanted to access

[Icarus]

Originally posted by nouse66
if you have kde installed (and samba of course) you can type "smb://computername" in konqueror to get a windows like interface. This works with Nautilus in Gnome also

[Goran[Croatia]]

On Mandrake 9.2 in KDE I just goto file:/mnt and then i click on windows or w/e but anyways it has everything in my C drive. So its cool cuz I can play the songs on my Windows partition and not waste space ^_^

[Hayl]

Originally posted by Goran[Croatia]
On Mandrake 9.2 in KDE I just goto file:/mnt and then i click on windows or w/e but anyways it has everything in my C drive. So its cool cuz I can play the songs on my Windows partition and not waste space ^_^

Goran, SAMBA has nothing to do with mounting local Windows partitions. This thread is about someone with SAMBA Problems.

[bryan.6]

the smbclient worked for me. only browser i've got on here is firefox... wait, come to think of it i've got opera too... didn't try it on that. either way, smbclient works great for me, so thanks a ton.

[bwkaz]

Neither Firefox nor Opera will work like your Windows example did.

The reason is twofold: First, Firefox and Opera are strictly Web browsers, not local file browsers. Second, Windows treats SMB access much like local file browsing, so IE's insistence on being a (really bad) file browser in addition to a (mostly bad) web browser lets it get away with opening \\servername\sharename\whatever in its address bar. Windows Explorer also does the same thing (I think that under the hood, IE and Windows Explorer share a lot of the same code).