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jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

light weight samba client

I am looking for a light weight samba client, i am using awesome3 wm.

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: light weight samba client

There are any number of tools to mount remote Samba shares. One even comes with Samba. Read 'man mount.cifs'.

Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 108

Re: light weight samba client

I think jaideep_jdof was looking for some sort of gui.

Try pyneighborhood. Out of development by the point, but it semi-works. Pretty light weight. You could also run "pacman -Ss samba" and see what you come up with.

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VirtualRider

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 134

Re: light weight samba client

I used "fusesmb" on my xfce a while ago. It mounts the smb as an folder - i liked it.

jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

Re: light weight samba client

Thanks for the options guys.I will give them a try.

N30N

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 273

Re: light weight samba client

I recommend checking out smbnetfs

jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

Re: light weight samba client

I tried smbnetfs and it worked great. thanks. I have one question does smbnetfs work with the password protected share.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: light weight samba client

There are any number of tools to mount remote Samba shares. One even comes with Samba. Read 'man mount.cifs'.

I could never get that working. Read a bunch of stuff about how to use it, every man page and web page in existence and it still wouldn't mount my share. smbmount always worked, though.

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jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

Re: light weight samba client

smbnetfs is not working anymore a fter a reboot. I installed smbnetfs asper the instructions in the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acc … g_smbnetfs, only difference was the fuse.conf wasn't there so i created one. Following are the details:

Module line in my rc.conf reads:

MODULES=(tg3 wl snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore acpi-cpufreq fuse vboxdrv)

The daemon line reads:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng iptables !network netfs crond hal wicd fam @httpd @sshd smbnetfs mysqld @postgresql @bluetooth @cpufreqd @alsa slim)

/etc/fuse.conf reads:

user_allow_other

lsmod | grep fuse:

fuse                   59584  2

N30N

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 273

Re: light weight samba client

I have one question does smbnetfs work with the password protected share.

Yup, see the comments in /etc/smbnetfs/.smb/smbnetfs.conf

smbnetfs is not working anymore a fter a reboot.

If you have a windows laptop about that is enabling and disabling the network card all the time to save power. You may need to adjust smbnetfs's refresh times.

jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

Re: light weight samba client

I have one question does smbnetfs work with the password protected share.

Yup, see the comments in /etc/smbnetfs/.smb/smbnetfs.conf

smbnetfs is not working anymore a fter a reboot.

If you have a windows laptop about that is enabling and disabling the network card all the time to save power. You may need to adjust smbnetfs's refresh times.

What should be the appropriate refresh timing.