[KLUG Members] RE: Qualified Domain Names, et al

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 10 May 2002 15:06:25 -0400 (EDT)


>Correct me if I am wrong, but I think what you are asking about below is the
>ability for you to do a Linux boot and browse the Windows Network
>Neighborhood to see your families shares (They have to have file sharing
>turned on and have used Explorer to share their hard drives for you to see
>them). One program I use to browse Windows shares is called LinNeighborhood.
> http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/
>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Madeinlinux/devel/RPMS/LinNeighborhood-0.6.3-5m
>lx.i386.html
>I think Brian was primarily addressing the situation of your doing a Linux
>boot then sharing files from your local hard drive with your family via
>Samba shares.

In a recent version of GNOME Nautilus will do this out-of-the-box,  just 
specify a unc in the path