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vladik

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 3

File Shares Not appearing

Good Afternoon,
  I have installed/uninstalled arch about ten times in hopes of learning it and have learned quite a lot. And have tried over these past few weeks to avoid the forums as I enjoy the self-satisfaction of that golden google found solution. However, to be to the point, whenever I go to my network places under root or regular user, I cannot see my shared folders or shared printers.

INFO:
My computer: Running Arch Linux and Windows XP connected wirelessly to my router
The Server: Running Windows Server 2003.
I can see the folders, use them perfectly while booted into WinXP but not Arch
Other computers can use files fine.
Server is hardwired to router.

Pictures.

Thank You, Dan.

vladik

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: File Shares Not appearing

Bump

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: File Shares Not appearing

just type smb://computername and shares will appear

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pseudonomous

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 349

Re: File Shares Not appearing

Now I'm not completely sure if this could be the problem, becuase I don't think you would see the windows network at all if it was, but do you have a samba client installed?

It seems though that smbclient should come in as a second tier dependancy for nautilus.  (nautilus depends gvfs which depends on smbclient)
I guess you could also try and access your share w/ smbclient directly, though that might take some man page reading to figure out.

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dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: File Shares Not appearing

Make sure name resolution is working, and you can ping the windows hosts by name.  That ( name resolution ) is one of the most common issues when dealing with network browsing issues.

vladik

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: File Shares Not appearing

Thank you wonder, that seems most likely the best answer, I have formatted and am DBAN'ing now. But will get back some time later. I do not believe I have a samba client installed.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: File Shares Not appearing

computername shoult be in /etc/hosts.
first try with the ip and then put a name to that computer

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