hi anders
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I don't understand the problem here... but are you guys
> > trying to get the Network neighborhood to show the linux boxes ??
>
> No, we are trying to get the browse list into a virtual Linux
> directory, so we can say "ls /smb" and get a list of computers
> currently on the network.
>
> Next, we want to say "ls /smb/win98" and get a list of shares of that
> computer.
>
> First then do we want to actually mount a share, by saying for example
> "cat /smb/win98/c/autoexec.bat" (if the machine win98 is exporting its
> C: drive under the name "c").
doing the cat above is no problem...
guess your trick is to find out which machine is available...
win98 or win98_for_tom or Win98_for_sally
but a simple
ls -l /smb/*/c/autoexec.bat will also show all the current servers...
- but one does need to be careful about old mounts of machines no longer
there...
you could also try a ping or check dhcp to see what machines is out there ??
have fun
alvin
