Network browsing

Mark Fraser ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk
Fri Nov 13 11:47:58 UTC 2009


On Thursday 12 Nov 2009 21:07:01 Mark Traceur wrote:
> > However, I am unable to get it to actually view anything. If I click on
> > the Network icon, I can see the computers on my network, but clicking on
> > one of those brings up another icon of type workgroup manager. Clicking
> > on that icon, I'm asked what I want to open it with.
> 
> I'm pretty sure they're all Samba shares, since FTP and SSH are
> usually dealt with in the terminal. If you don't have any samba shares
> on your network, well, that's probably why you can't open anything.

I don't think it's Samba as smb://workgroup/ shows 3 servers, but network:/ 
shows only 2. Also each server is listed as name [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx] and 
trying to open it I'm asked:
Open 'network:/name.local/'?

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