Getting quite frustrated now. I’ve loaded on all the leading debian based distros in the last day or two and I’m no closer to getting my network to windows shares working.
I am in a workgroup.
I have a share that is set up on a ‘Home’ xp machine, meaning permissions are simple - either share, dont share, or share and alter.
I can access this share via ftp clients, and from windows machines, and mandrake.
I cannot for the life of me connect to the windows share via IP without an error saying it’s not found. Browsing via networks also shows a blank box, no shares.
The only distro that did connect was PClinuxOS which then died completely after first apt-get update - nice.
So, Im in suse, hoping its going to be better but, ubuntu, mint, and now suse wont connect to the windows share
What am i doing wrong, there must be something i need to install? Its debian based, im doing something wrong or theres a setting i dont know about.
Please advise???
Fyi - Ive loaded suse, got on the wireless and go striaght ont he forum - fresh build.
Hi and welcome to the forums. I’ll try to help you with openSUSE, cause I don’t know much about the other distros. And by the way, openSUSE is not Debian based. Anyway, at least you should be able to connect to a windows share in nautilus or konqueror. Type smb://ip-address-of-the-remote-location, e.g. smb://192.168.1.1
If that works, nearly everything is ok and you will just need to edit a firewall setting, at least when you are running openSUSE11. Got to Yast → Security and Users → Firewall → Broadcast. There click on add and add samba browsing for your local network, e.g 192.168.1.1/24. Then you should be able to browse your network by typing remote:/ or smb:/ in konqueror.