Samba Browser and msn client

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

I just moved from freeBSD to gentoo, and I like it so far, but there are 3 things I miss: gnomba (xsmbrowser would do as well), kmsn (or any msn client) and setiathome (to the astronomer in me :wink:

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Have I just misread? are there any alternatives to these packages? There are more ports coming, right?

I hope the forum support is just as good as the (meta) distro it self

klieber · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: Samba Browser and msn client

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

yeah I meant a client for MSN messenger. I used kmsn in freeBSD.
I will try out gaim soon,then.
That will solve that problem, but what about samba? I have heard that konqueror can browse samba, but I want a pure samba browser.

And if someone tells me how, I would be glad to give package maintaining a go

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

the closest thing is Linneighborhood (not sure on the spelling)...
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Jeevz · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: Samba Browser and msn client

klieber · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 3:48 pm Post subject:

I should have also mentioned that Gaim is already in the Gentoo Portage system. So, trying it is as easy as:

emerge gaim

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garrontmo · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Seattle, WA

xfsamba which is part of xfce is a pretty good samba browser. Your going to need to "emerge xfce" and then just run "xfsamba"

lude · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Samba Browser and msn client

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

DarkEddie · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 8:16 am Post subject: Komba !

I used to use gnomba but when I switched to KDE I found Komba (Komba2). Works great !
Just emerge komba2.

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

I found kmsn now. it has changed name to kmerlin. I guess the freeBSD ports wasn`t all too updated on that one.

I have just downloaded gaim, and I can only see options for icq,aim and toc (what is that?).

lk42pro

hi, i tried emerge --pretend gaim and i find out its going to install most of the gnome files since the dependency....i don't want that....but if i install with USE"-gnome" i get an error saying i am missing a file in the source...(i forgot the name)....what should/can i do?

static · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

Gaim is awesome. Just great. The reason you only see those is because you need to to go to the plugins dialog and select which protocols you want it to load - you'll see libmsn and libicq, etc.
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lk42pro · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:29 pm Post subject:

friedmud · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: In KDE

If you are using KDE just use konq to browse the network. In the address box (at the top) just put:

smb://nameofcomputer

Just like you do in windows. It is really fast and really convenient.

Note that you might have to setup your smb stuff in the KDE control panel and you might need to emerge samba and set it up (by setting up smb.conf in /etc/smb).

Derek

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

well, if youre using kde you can try using lisa or reslisa, both of which will scan your network for other computers running network services (such as samba)
they both can be set up through the kde control panel, although ill warn you now that they have had a tendency in the past (at least for me) to not work all the time.
once you have set up either one you can access reslisa by typing in rlan:/ in konqueror and for lisa using lan:/localhost
as far as additional setup is concerned you need to add lisa into your local setup script so it starts at boot time and for reslisa you need to just run the reslisa binary once so it can set itself up (such as by typing ln -s /usr/kde/3/bin/reslisa ~/.kde3/Autostart)

hope that helps

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squanto · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 3:05 am Post subject:

I am not totally sure, but I think if you go to the seti site, they have seti for *nix, and you can compile and install it yourself. They aslo have an Xwindows util that lets you see the pretty colors like in other os's, but it is not needed to run the client.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html

-Andrew

Daemon · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 65

i installed gaim but there seems to be no support for MSN. the only protocols i can choose from when creating an account are AIM/ICQ and TOC. is there an additional thing to be done to get MSN protocol support?

cr0nos · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

you have to load the right stuff. Not hard if you read the man, homepage or just fool around with it.

Dtun3z and I have been working on an ebuild for gnomba, we will submit it soon, so look out for it.
we are also working on ebuilds for photopc and xmp.