[lug] Samba, Printers, Corel, whatnot

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 11-30 11:14, Ken Kinder wrote:
> OK. Sadly, the use of SMB as a protocol here is rampit. Naturally, I run a 
> Linux desktop, and I have Samba working to the effect that I can mount shares 
> _IF_ I know exactly what the path is using the command line tool.

Well, you can try smbclient -L against the remote host(s) in question.

> Someone down the hall has Corel Linux, which seems to have a really nice 
> Samba set-up automatically and a nifty Samba browser. That, frankly, is what 
> I want, as I can't keep track of all the crazy URL'ish like things for this 
> file sharing system.
> 
> Rather than fiddling with these buggy GTK and KDE browsers any more, I was 
> wondering if anyone knew, now that Corel Linux went away, where I can 
> download their Samba browser? I looked on their site and couldn't find it, 
> but did hear rumors they released it as open source when they ditched Corel 
> Linux?

Well, this is GTK+, but I think you still want a GUI, if I understand
you correctly. I haven't used this, but since FreeBSD puts it in its ports
section, it must be somewhat worthy:

http://sumpan.campus.luth.se/software/jags/

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