[Nottingham] Laptop arrived - now for networking.....

[David Aldred]

In message <200405151551.15085.derek at huskisson.free-online.co.uk>, Derek 
Huskisson <derek at huskisson.free-online.co.uk> writes
>On Saturday 15 May 2004 13:34, David Aldred wrote:
>
>>
>> So it seems that the Linux machine can see the Windows one.  Now, where
>> should I be looking to find the XP machine's shares in some sort of file
>> manager window?
>
>As somebody mentioned earlier, if you've got SUSE, then you've got KDE 
>as a graphical manager. If you've got KDE then you've got Konqueror 
>both as a internet browser and as a file/network browser.
>
>       Open up Konqueror. On the left hand side you should see a panel 
>with icons
>for 'Devices' and 'Lan Manager'. If you havn't got this panel then hit 
>F9 then you will see it.
>
>Click on the LAN manager icon and it should open-up eventually giving 
>you a list of the shares on both computers, which, given favourable 
>permissions and passwords will allow you to browse the contents.

When I hit LAN Browser (which is what appears in the left hand screen of 
Konqueror), a message box appears saying ''Protocol not supported'.

>
>Or you could use the shortcut suggested and enter "smb://198.128.0 11" 
>or "smb://198.128.0.1" in Konqueror's LOcation box.

That leads to Konqueror trying to load a url at 
http://navigation.realnames.com - presumably it's looking for the IP 
address on the web rather than the lan.

The Konqueror version is 3.0.3 - is that relevant?
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