Thursday, December 11, 2008

Samba shares on Xubuntu

Googling I found some tips to browse smb shares. First I configured "shared folders" on the Applications->System menu. The first time I run the configuration software, it asked to me to install all necessary NFS ans SMB software. It also installed the smb client.

Type smbclient -L -serveripaddress and now you can see what folders are shared. Then you can mount the desired folder with:
sudo smbmount //serveripaddress/folder localfolder -o username=youruser,password=yourpassword ,uid=1000,mask=000

There is, also, a small graphic soft to browse smb networks: pyneighborhood. It's a GTK2 application that runs very well. It can be installed from the Synaptic package manager.

More infomation on this thread at the Ubuntu forums.

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