On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:32:03 +0530, Debajit Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can browse all the Windows shares on my LAN with LinNeighborhood, > but when I try to mount it, it gives an error saying "Cannot resolve > name". I can however mount them manually using smbmount. > > When I mount using smbmount, the mounted shares do show up in > LinNeighborhood, but when I try to unmount it from within > LinNeighborhood, it says that smbmount must be installed suid. But > even doing that does not seem to help. > > What could be the problem here? > > Could anyone tell me the settings you use for LinNeighborhood? I > assume it would be a prob with LinNeighbourhood, because the smb > utilities otherwise work fine from the command line.
Did you try LinNeighbourhood as root? IIRC, mount needs SUID or su to mount the share. > > What are other good alternatives to LinNeighborhood? > > KDE does allow smb browsing, but that seems to be limited to browsing > alone -- files are still *copied* to my machine when they have to be > opened. Does KDE itself allow mounting of windows shares? mount -t smbfs ....? Regards, Shantanoo -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
