On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 10:22 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > Windows Neighbourhood. This is a bit unfair as it is a solid part of > the > Windows world, but it's like reading a .doc file. Every OS has to do > it. > OS X fails me here as I have to enter a cryptic line of text to access > a > Windows share. Windows obviously does fine at this [though issues > between > 98 and 2K have always caused pain]. Linux has LinNeighbourhood, but > it's > not something I've ever got to work. OS X does attempt to do it with a > tree-widget for the computers on your share, but it fails to find > anything > on my simple windows workgroup setup.
There must be something else going on here because I use the Connect to Server dialog all the time to find stuff in the Network Neighborhood. Most of the shares I use are served by Samba or Windows 98. Maybe newer versions of Windows have other problems. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
