Roy Stogner wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > I don't understand the problem here... but are you guys
> > trying to get the Network neighborhood to show the linux boxes ??
> > ( guessing not )
> >
> > linux boxes should easilily be able to see the Windows Boxes
> > linux# ls -la /smb/Windows_boxes/....
>
> That's not quite the problem - you're assuming that there are are a
> preset number of known shares on known machines. We're in a college
> computing environment where anyone can add, remove, or rename
> computers or shares on a whim, and we'd like Linux to have the same
> functionality that Windows does for browsing through the lists of such
> servers and shares that SMB makes available.
Yes, I don't know how to get the browse lists from Samba, but that
should presumably not be too difficult?
-hpa
