Re: [Sheflug] Networking Linux Workstations

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

I'm firstly surprised you can do such a thing in KDE! That's quite cunning,
not a feature I noticed, although I'm a GNOMEr (for the moment!). My advice
would be to check the samba config first: obviously, it needs the same
workgroup name, etc., as the rest of the network. It would be useful to make
sure you can ping Windows machines you are trying to browse, then try using
smbclient to see if you can actually get Samba to talk to them. Can't
remember the options to smbclient, but I think you can -L to list the
services on a machine.If smbclient shows *any* sign of being able to talk to
other machines, then it's a Konq thing, and the only thing I can suggest
then is to check and re-check the config there too.

As for Pop/IMAP, go through your /etc/inetd.conf file - there will probably
be handlers for pop / imap in there, and they'll probably be on lines
starting with '#'. Remove the # to get them working. You'll also need to
then restart the computer for the change to take affect, or type
'killall -HUP inetd' at a root prompt. That should at least allow you to
connect to the local machine, you may then need to setup any configuration
files the pop /imap handlers need, although often this isn't necessary.

Cheers,

Alex.

> Are the computers you are trying to access set up to share their drives?
If
> shares are not enabled on the windoze boxes, you won't see 'em.
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I need some advice with Linux Mandrake 7.2
> > In file browser konqueror there is a Windows Share, I am trying to find
> > other computers in a Workgroup within a network.
> > Set up samba with smb.conf and with the help of linuxconf, checked that
> > smb is running.
> > But can I see other computers?. With a Linux Mandrake 7.1 on are college
> > network I can find other computers with KDE kruiser.
> >
> > Does any one have local mail working with pop3 imap, can never get it to
> > work, or has Mandrake development team hidden some start up service I
> > can not find.
> >
> > Well I was unable to get to your demo week, that may have sorted my
> > problems out for me.
> >
> > I am setting up dual boot systems to cover a Networking course in Linux,
> > and need to change from one system to another.


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