getting nautilus to display the local network

[saturn-vk]

How exactly do I do that. As far as I've used slackware, never has this feature worked. When I go to smb:/// or click the Windows network icon, the window becomes empty, as if nothing is there.
I can access the network just fine using the standard samba tools, like smbclient and mount, but never through this. Here's an example of what I'm seeing in nautilus:
http://urandom.hit.bg/smb.jpg
here's the smb.conf file

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/10/13 22:49:09

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = BLOKA
server string = Slackware Samba 3.0
interfaces = eth0
guest account = ftp
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
invalid users = guest
valid users = administrator
hosts allow = 10.0.0.
load printers = yes
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = cups

[games]
comment = Games
path = /usr/local/games
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes


I was kind of optimistic about gnome 2.8, since it promised a lot with this, but as you can see, even it doesn't work.

So how do I make it work?

[quip]

Can you start nautilus from a shell and then get any errors to stdout? I'm wondering if it's having difficulty finding a master browser (the complaint xfsamba was giving me while I could still mount via cli).

[saturn-vk]

this is all of it, but it doesn't seem anything's remotely related to samba.

saturn_vk@sat:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:17799): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'NautilusBurn'.

(nautilus:17799): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(nautilus:17799): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(nautilus:17799): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_weak_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
looking for type: got text/plain
looking for type: got text/plain
looking for type: got application/x-gnome-app-info
looking for type: got text/plain

[quip]

No, doesn't look like anything to do w/samba...I have no idea what the problem is.
However, if you don't fix it, there are some gui alternatives. They might not be what you are wanting, but you could check them out. One is xsmbrowser. My gtk file manager (xffm, in xfce) includes xfsamba4. I would think it would run for you nicely.

[j79zlr]

I was always able to browse my local network with samba on slackware. The gnomevfs2 package should be build with samba support. That is actually the package that allows network browsing via samba in Nautilus. As long as you have used the LinuxPackage's package it should work. As a side note, if you are compiling from source [not sure] you have to add libsmbclient support to do this. e.g. Gentoo the samba use flag, or in FreeBSD the WITH_SAMBA=yes make option.

[saturn-vk]

well, I've always used slackware's packages. Right now though Im with dropline gnome. I will install gnomevfs2 from linuxpackages, and after that I will compile it if it doesn't work. Hopefully that will fix it.
As far as alternatives are concerned, I have tried xfsamba4 already, but I don't like the layout of the browser itself, and it requires root to mount the shares.

[j79zlr]

Could be a dropline problem, I actually used slackware up until they switched to dropline and dropped normal gnome support. I don't think that LinuxPackages carries any gnome packages now, I forgot about that. I never like dropline, it always seemed to take forever for new packages to be released.