how to browse network clients

Discussion in 'Linux, BSD and Other OS's' started by StimpE, Jul 2, 2006.

  1. StimpE

    StimpE lol, Internet!

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    How can I browse network clients? In windows all you do is go start -> run then \\compname, but I can't figure out how to do it in linux. Probably something stupid I've missed, thanks in advance.
     
  2. Anti-Trend

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    By "Network" I'm assuming you mean "Windows / NetBIOS", right? There's lots of different ways to network. Linux and other unices typically use NFS for filesharing. However, they can have full NetBIOS compatibility with the help of Samba. There are also lots of graphical front-ends to Samba which perform similarly to "Network Neighborhood" in Windows. LISA can do it, so can smb4k to name a few. In konqueror, you can connect to a SMB server directly by putting the IP address or WINS name of the server in the address bar, like so:
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    smb://NETBIOSNAME
    ...where "NETBIOSNAME" = the name of the server, or
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    smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    where "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" = the IP address of the server.
     
  3. StimpE

    StimpE lol, Internet!

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    I knew it was something retarted..
     

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