SMB Browsing Tools

[Harold Aling]

Surajram Kumaravel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new to Xubuntu (i haven't started using it.. i'm waiting for 
> the iso files to download) but i've used Ubuntu and XFCE (on Zenwalk) 
> quite often.
>
> I was going through the software listing page at 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/ProposedPackages and found that there is 
> a requrement for a SMB browsing tool. I haven't Tried using FUSE but 
> from what I have read it will also overcome one of the biggest problems 
> users migrating to linux face, i.e NTFS write access
>
> Coming back to the main reason for this thread... I remember using an 
> extremely usefull tool as LinNeighborhood long time back
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/linneighborhood/
> http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/
>
> I suppose this project is not under development. but i still feel that 
> this might be useful
>
> Also i came across a tool called xsmbrowser. I cant find any link to the 
> web site now but here is a link to a google search 
> http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=xsmbrowser
>
> regards,
> Surajram Kumaravel
>
> p.s. forgive any mistakes coz. i'm in a hurry...
>   
I have fusesmb running all the time. With fusesmb you can mount an 
entire network. You can specify per workgroup/domain/server what 
username/password to use. Too bad fusesmb doesn't have a GUI popup when 
you encounter a share which you can not access with the given credentials...

-H-