<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> SAMBA: An "easy" app for discovering windows shares in the neighbourhood is smb4k. Nevertheless, I prefer mounting the shares in using cifs when are in servers, but cifs has file locking problems with openoffice... You can also type in konqueror: smb://yourusername@server andrew escribió: <blockquote cite="mid44EB53AE.9020900@loampitsfarm.co.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">My first look back here after an absence since when I have installed Kubuntu Dapper on a p4 2GHz, so I'm seeing decent performance under Linux for the first time. I think the improvements since hoary are very nice. I have a medium term plan to rely on Linux and just keep a legacy version of windows running as a virtual machine, using my old license, I'm not looking forward to XPs successor. First problem, still unresolved, is that Kubunu wouldn't see my windows network even when I tried to mount a Samba share manually. Anyway there seemed a bit more support for this in the ubuntu forum so I installed Gnome, which seemed fine. It even allowed nautilus to see two windows workgroups, so one stage further than Kubuntu. I am still unable to connect to or read shared folders in the windows workgroups. Next thing I noticed was OpenOffice 2 icons are missing, until hovered over, when running Gnome but fine in KDE, are there many issues with having bothe Gnome and kde sessions available? Sadly I've moved away from Konqueror and Kmail to Firefox and Thunderbird. I moved to Firefox for compatibility with my windows boxes and I am happy with that. Thunderbird was forced on me because kmail started reporting my pop3 box was broken, I suspect because of a change my isp made to the mail server. Agent under windows didn't blink and carried on as usual. I find that I can only get mail under linux by using Thunderbird set to fetch from an imap box. I preferred kmail and knode (no longer supported??) but still fall back to agent under windows because I am so familiar with it and its offline handling, despite now having broadband access. I think I will have to see if there is a suitable emulator for agent. AJH</pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>