network browser

Free Thinker · 2007-09-17 10:59:23

hoi.
well, subj.
my arch is installed on a laptop wich i carry a lot and change networks almost every day.
the problem is that i can't use samba mount, because the computers change and i dont always know the network and computer names.
when i used gnome, it had a network browser. now i'm using openbox and dont know wich prog should i use to browse networks (mostly windows).

ofcourse i searched, but the only browser that i found was for kde and it didn't work well for me.
any solutions to that?

Free Thinker · 2007-09-20 19:16:02

what, no one here uses this kind of sw?

thayer · 2007-09-20 20:26:16

I don't think you'll find many (any?) OB users that run a GUI network browser... but I do believe that GNOME's Nautilus browser can be used to browse networks (as well as make remote connections, such as SSH, FTP, and SMB (windows shares).

somairotevoli · 2007-09-20 21:16:53

have a look at g2sc in community.

shining · 2007-09-20 21:20:42

Or use :
community/smbnetfs 0.3.10-4
small C program that mounts Microsoft network neighborhood in single directory

And then you can use any file browsers

slackhack · 2007-09-20 21:50:48

you might also try pyneighborhood in the AUR. i've never used it, but LinNeighborhood (on which it's based) is pretty good. One of the main arch repos has xsmbrowser, too.

Free Thinker · 2007-09-21 10:10:07

thayer.w wrote:

I don't think you'll find many (any?) OB users that run a GUI network browser... but I do believe that GNOME's Nautilus browser can be used to browse networks (as well as make remote connections, such as SSH, FTP, and SMB (windows shares).

Free Thinker wrote:

when i used gnome, it had a network browser. now i'm using openbox and dont know wich prog should i use to browse networks (mostly windows).

it doesn't have to be gui. if there any way to look what networks i can detect and after that show the computers in that network using command line, it will be fine.

Last edited by Free Thinker (2007-09-21 10:15:26)

shining · 2007-09-21 10:57:35

Free Thinker wrote:

it doesn't have to be gui. if there any way to look what networks i can detect and after that show the computers in that network using command line, it will be fine.

As I said, you can just mount the samba shares in the filesystem using smbnetfs. After that you can use any file browsers. So this includes the shell also.

buttons · 2007-09-21 11:02:04

sudo mount -t smbfs //name/location somewhere

smbfs is in the kernel. voila, it's a directory on your box.

Cilyan · 2007-09-21 11:48:08

You can use smbtree to list all the shares in a network. Just enter an empty password. The only problem I got with it is that it converts IP to computer name, but my router dosn't offer any DNS service.
Else, just use nautilus and activate gnome-volume-manager at startup.

Free Thinker · 2007-09-21 16:13:24

Cilyan wrote:

You can use smbtree to list all the shares in a network. Just enter an empty password. The only problem I got with it is that it converts IP to computer name, but my router dosn't offer any DNS service.
Else, just use nautilus and activate gnome-volume-manager at startup.

ok, i'll check it out.
btw, i repeat: i dont use gnome.

thayer · 2007-09-21 17:07:04

We heard you the first time

Just because you don't use the GNOME Desktop Environment doesn't mean you don't use Nautilus. There are a lot of Openbox users that still use Nautilus as their file manager. For the record, what file manager *do* you use?

AlmaMater · 2007-09-21 20:38:51

i use openbox, and pyneighborhood works great for me : )

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