8 is enough

[Cyber Source]

the addressing of smb:/// with the third slash will show all workgroups 
in your network

Stephen Burke wrote:

> ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
>
> :) thanks ...me cringing too
>
> Quoting Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>:
>
>
>> being a rabid GNOME fan, it pains me to say this but.....if your 
>> using GNOME, fire up (cringe) Konqueror and put smb:/// in the 
>> address bar, it has no problem playing songs, etc. from samba locations.
>>
>> ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
>>  
>>
>
>
> Why all the cringing?
>
> I only cringe when I am forced to use a M$ box, like for swapping mp3s 
> on my iRiver mp3 player which I have not yet been able to connect to 
> with a Linux box, even though I found the ifp-driver at sourceforge 
> some time ago.
>
> Personally, I can no longer take EITHER gnome or KDE, as they both 
> look way too much like the boring old M$ desktop (taskbar, systray, 
> etc), so I use enlightenment. For whatever reason the "home folder" 
> choice in the enlightenment menu opens a Nautilus window which I can 
> do without, so I open konqeror from another menu, which is much 
> friendlier to samba than Nautilus, as stated above. (I would use 
> blackbox more, probably, if I could figure out how to change the 
> background image there.)
>
> I wonder about the addressing, though, since I have only been using 
> two slashes like so : smb://WinBox  or  smb://workgroup or 
> smb://WinBox/share. That is good for browsing in konqueror, but if you 
> go to play mp3s or a movie or whatever, konqueror is going to keep 
> asking you what you want to with the file everytime (unless you choose 
> the "do not ask again" and then you're stuck doing the same damn thing 
> every time until you figure out how to get the choice back).  When I 
> use three slashes, I get a popup saying :
>
> Internal Error
> Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org
> Unknown error condition
>
> A much more direct way to get at stuff on a M$ box is to mount the 
> samba shares on your system and then konqueror and nautilus will work 
> with them as if they were just another drive (though I have not 
> figured out how to get M$ to allow me to write to an smb drive from 
> here(SuSE 8.2), so if anyone knows about that, please enlighten me 
> [thanks]).
>
> The way to mount them is this:
>
> $ mkdir  /some/mount/folder
> $su
> Password:
> #mount  -t  smbfs  //WinBox/share   /some/mount/folder       {one 
> space between, though I have put two here to see better)
> Password: {for WinUser on WinBox}
> #
>
> Then konqueror and Nautilus will both be much friendlier to browse with.
>
> (you will have to "su" sooner if you want to make the mount directory 
> in /mnt or some other place like that. I have been simply mounting 
> things in my home folder, which seems to work pretty well and makes 
> things easy to find [and have permissions to])
>
> It probably helps helps to have the same user account name on both 
> machines.
> I do and it seems to work.
>
> Sorry if this is getting long, but I am also new-ish to this list and 
> haven't yet figured out how much reading people here will tolerate.
>
> So I will answer the other newcomer (Don) question here also, as I 
> will never get to replying to the mailing individually.
>
>
> ---I am new to the list, and I have a couple of questions:
>
> ---What OS is everyone running?
>
> ---What are the meetings like?
>
> I am using SuSE 8.2 to do most things these days (the BLAG 
> installation that I wrote about in my only other post here didn't 
> quite work, as I found it lacking in various key tools (gcc, etc.) 
> when I went to try to use konstruct to put some KDE stuff in there, so 
> I left it for later examination and rebuilt something likethe SuSE 
> system I had going before).
>
> I also built this box with a removable HD so that I can toy with 
> different systems on it, and am currently trying to wrestle an FC3 
> system into place on another drive. I have tried installing many 
> different systems there, but SuSE seems to be friendliest with my 
> hardware. Everything else (slackware, FreeBSD, fedora, debian) seems 
> to make the whole house of cards collapse as soon as I get to xconfig.
>
> I also have a couple of Redhat 9 laptops configured to teleconference 
> with gnomemeeting, which is curious, since Redhat stopped supporting 9 
> and the webcam's driver maintainer stopped maintaining the PWC driver 
> (apparently after some long, dramatic battle with the kernel 
> maintainers that I missed until it was already over) right around the 
> time when I had finally finished configuring my system. I'm just glad 
> I didn't go ahead and write the manual for that system (which was the 
> original plan), but I am all set up to toy with teleconferencing, if 
> anyone here is so equipped and would like to connect in a an H323 kind 
> of way. I need practice with it, as the user at the other end of the 
> system I was trying to build (in NYC) kind of had other things to do 
> by the time I was connected.
>
> As for the question about meetings, though I truly wanted to attend 
> the one last sunday, two years of graduate school night classes have 
> left me on a twisted schedule where I cannot really get to bed before 
> 4am, which leaves me rising around noon. After recent posts concerning 
> punctuality, I knew I would never make it on time, so I haven't yet 
> been to a meeting to find out and am also curious as well about what 
> happens there.
>
> That's all for me.
> Sorry if this was all too much, but my undergraduate degree was 
> English Literature and once I start writing it's tough to sum it all 
> up in 25 words or less.
> ;-),
> S.
>
> Oh, yeah, xfce has and interesting file browser as well, xffm, which 
> seems rather friendly, though habit generally keeps me opening konqueror.
>
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>>>> Does anyone know of another file browser besides Nautilus ...I depise
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>>> Nautilus
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>>>> not being able to figure out that I want to open a folder in a file 
>>>> share on
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>>> a
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>>>> windows server and use the files I have in there ...I have been 
>>>> connecting
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>>> with
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>>>> smbclient/terminal by bringing the file down putting the file up 
>>>> and it is
>>>> getting old.
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