A very simple general linux networking question [solved]

jessicavampirehunter

*raises hand* Hello, my name is Jessica, and I'm a Linux n00b.

I started using Linux about two months ago, and most of that time was SUSE. I just got Gentoo up and running, and enlightenment is deeply awesome. My laptop is connected to a local area network via an ethernet cable. Under SUSE, there was a neat little utility that let me look for other computers in the Linux equivalent of a Windows workgroup. I don't know how to do this without that utility. Help? Where are the other computers?

Right before I started fiddling with Gentoo, I backed up my hard drive to my brother's computer (good thing, too, because my hard drive failed the next morning and I had to replace it). So I want to copy all my stuff back onto my laptop.
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hadoque · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

you need to install and configure samba, so that your linux-box can communicate with the other windows-boxes. If there are only linux-boxes in your network, you can use NFS.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-338602-highlight-samba.html

zOOz · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Lithuania

Hi.
Simply you can use Midnight Commander (mc) for browsing in known windows share. If you want browsing all your workgroup, you can scan with nmbscan tool and then browse with mc. The better way would be to mount windows share.

jessicavampirehunter · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:14 am Post subject:

Thank you so much!
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m.b.j. · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

A nice Utily for browsing smbshares, LinNeighborhood (needs samba), it is in portage... (emerge linneighborhood)
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jessicavampirehunter · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:29 am Post subject:

I tried

widan · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:

The right name, but the wrong case...