On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 8:31 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 1:10 am, you wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2002 07:25 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled > > > > masses, saying: > > > I installed komba2 - at least I think I did. It certainly shows up on > > > the list of installed packages, but I have no idea how to use it. > > > > do you have a menu entry networking > other > komba2? > > > > if that doesn't help enough fire off another yell... ;) > > I think perhaps I misunderstood you. In Package Manager I have networking > > Other > komba2. I have re-installed it in case it was dodgy before. For > the first time I can see my machine and samba directory under Local Network > (is this how it's used?), but I can't see the 2 windows machines. I'm > guessing that this is because they had dynamic addressing under windows to > us my internet connection. Does it work the same under linux, or should I > change them to a static address? If I need to put them into a DNS list > surely it would have to be static? > > Anne
Komba will normally find your Windows computers without having to put anything in the settings at all. When you click on the scan button it broadcasts to search for hosts. If it does not find anything just put an IP address range which covers the entire subnet used by your DHCP. There is also the 'Scan every workgroup' and 'scan every host' options in settings which may help you. When you find a host and its shares you must set a password for the share before it can be mounted. Just right click on the share, set the password, and save it, then in future you can just click on shares to mount them. If komba still does not find hosts I would start asking if a firewall is active? It is worth while getting Komba working. Not only is it very pretty, but it is also a lot faster than using konqueror to browse samba networks as this item says. http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=2169&lang=en derek
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