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Clutch
07-18-2001, 05:46 PM
First of all I have been running Mandrake Linux 8 for about a week now so bare with me. I have been trying to use LinNeighborhood to browse my windows machines and have run into some problems. I think I need to edit my smb.config file (how is this done by the way, I can only pull it up in read only mode. Is there a console command to run it?). Anyway, LinNeighborhood finds my other machines and I can mount them all right after I did a few chmod's, but konqueror will crash as soon as I open up the directory I mounted to. I can see the contents of my windows machine but konqueror will not respond. The file manager utility will work UNTILL I try to transfer a file, at which point it too will lock up hard. I tried to list the contents of the mounted win box in a terminal and it locked up. I have done no configuration to Samba other than install it so I assume that most be the reason, but it seems stange that I can see the contents, just not move them without a crash.

TheGimp
07-18-2001, 06:08 PM
give gnosamba (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnosamba) a go :)
there will be rpm's for it on rpmfind.net

Clutch
07-18-2001, 06:56 PM
Hmm, I'm kinda partial to KDE. Plus I don't think it would help since I can't get it to work with a terminal either.

Clutch
07-18-2001, 10:22 PM
Hmmmm.. Could someone at least tell me how to access and edit the samba.config file in non read only mode?

Keyser Soze
07-19-2001, 03:51 AM
you need to be root to edit the file, su to root, cd to the folder of whatever file you wish to edit then just type in vi filename . :D

Keyser Soze
07-19-2001, 03:52 AM
btw, some harlots will tell you to use emacs, but they are in error. Use vi ;)