problem connecting to corporate LAN

Mark Greenwood captain_bodge at yahoo.co.uk
Sun May 23 11:01:34 UTC 2010


On Sunday 23 May 2010 11:25:09 pkaplan1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 17:07 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 21:37:25 pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> > > Since installing Lucid, I haven't been able to use PyNeighborhood or
> > > SMB4K to mount Windows AD shares form the corporate LAN
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I can mount from the command line or use the smb:// protocol in
> > > konqueror, but both GUI tools fail. SMB4K has been borked for several
> > > releases, but PyNeighborhood worked fine under Karmic and I am using the
> > > same config file that worked previously.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know of any problems with these tools? Work-arounds?
> > > Alternatives?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul
> > 
> > In the past I've added entries to fstab to mount samba shares. I can't
> > remember the syntax but I'm sure Google can.
> > 
> > Alternatively, open Dolphin, press F9 to show the Places panel if it isn't
> > already open, and browse using the 'Samba Shares' icon. There's a panel in
> > System Settings for setting the default username and password. You can
> > also create permanent shortcuts to network shares using 'Add Network
> > Folder'.
> > 
> > Mark
> These all seem to work (don't want to use the fstab solution though), but what 
> changed between karmic and lucid that is preventing PyNeighborhood from 
> connecting to the LAN?  I get a login failed error message.
> Paul
> 
This is Linux. Any one of a million things could have changed. It's the downside of open source development that things just break from time to time. My suggestion is to try the PyNeighborhood home page, if it has one, and see if there's an updated version.

Mark





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