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DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

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Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

Just wondering what everyone uses.  I just have a few scripts that I wrote to mount my network drives on my network, but when I'm on campus I would like to browse the subnet in the engineering department.  Eventually I'll probably just map the share folder for students, but it's still nice to be able to browse.

CLI is preferable, but I'm not opposed to GUI if it gets the job done without a fuss.  I'm running KDEmod latest and arch x86 fully updated.
I've installed g2sc and smb4k (latter doesn't work in kdemod apparently).  g2sc seems like it will work with a little configuration.
On g2sc it doesnt' prompt for authentication when I click on network/WORKGROUP...........though I can authenticate with my mount cifs scripts quite easily using my Windows share credentials.

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2009-09-19 04:28:41)

zowki

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From: Trapped in The Matrix

Registered: 2008-11-27

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Re: Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

You can mount the share and view it using your favorite file manager:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/access-win … rom-linux/

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DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 356

Re: Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

Thanks for the info, but I know how to mount shares...........I wrote scripts for all of my network drives on my network (for example)

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //192.168.0.255/SHARE /mnt/RAID5

What I'm looking for is a good way to browse resources if you don't know the IP addresses or share names of the servers running the shares.  In our engineering network we have Linux and Windows shares AFAIK, and elsewhere on the wireless it would be nice to browse other resources, such as the computing department (downloading MS Office, etc.)

I authenticate using my student credentials, so if there are profiles and/or global settings I could use those credentials.....

EDIT:
That article links some info on smbclient...........I have a feeling that is the best solution, since it's CLI and straightforward.
smbclient works great, but I need to figure out which switch allows to list all available shares on the subnet......if anyone knows before I find it in the man pages or elsewhere I'd appreciate the advice

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2009-09-19 06:50:49)

Dieter@be

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Re: Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

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ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

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Re: Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

I use nautilus, gnome-commander, and if I'm already using it for something else, totalcommander under wine...

i.e. any tool that can browse and SMB network is the "best" if it suits your current purpose.

briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: Best method: Browsing windows/smb shares cli or gui

Try smbnetfs; it mounts (via FUSE) whole SMB network under one mountpoint, as a .../workgroup/host/share/ tree.