[ubuntu-uk] Networking.....

[John Matthews]

Daniel Drummond wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 10:58 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
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>> mac wrote:
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>>> John Matthews wrote:
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>>>> Hi, I wonder can somebody help with this please? How do you find out if 
>>>> Samba isnt running?
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>>> Does this help:
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>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733619
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>>> mac
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>> Hi, that didnt work, I didnt understand most of it. I still cant get my 
>> network to work.
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>> John
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> Hi John,
>
> I don't normally connect to shared drives through the Network Icon, but
> I use Places->Connect To Server
>
> Then choose Windows Share in the drop down box, fill in the ip address,
> share name, Domain Name (Workgroup), and I usually just create a
> bookmark, so next time I can just click one icon, and it mounts it
> straight away.  Under username you may have to put the name of a user
> account on the machine you are trying to connect to (and a corresponding
> password if asked).
>
>
> Running samba will not help unless you have shares on your Ubuntu system
> that you want to make available to the other computers.  Then it
> requires Samba configuration.  To access files on other computers
> usually doesn't need any configuration or samba daemons on a standard
> Ubuntu install.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Dan
>
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Hi, before upgrading to Karma, that is what I used to be able to do, is 
click on Places, then Network then it would have two icons, one was the 
Windows icon, the other Linux icon. I now only have the window Icon, and 
when I click on that, it says unable to mount. Nothing happens, and I 
have a Linux machine and windows machine open.

John.