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

[David Williams]

Hi David/Derek,  

Before you start worrying too much, I wonder if a typo has crept in to cause 
chaos.  If you try smb://192.168.0.1, what happens?  

The range 192.168.x.y is assigned as a private IP address range, and this is what 
your XP machine has used for its 'internal' address.  Provided you keep your linux 
machine with the same x, but a different y, then you should be able to see each 
machine.  This address range is safe to use on your local network.  

As far as Konqueror is concerned 198.a.b.c or 192.128.d.e are foreign addresses 
and so it will try to do a search (DNS) on the web (& gets side-tracked to 
realnames.com).  

David

ps It looks as if the XP machine is sharing all its drives (I presume you have 
promiscuous XP Home installed).  Check you have a firewall to protect your 
drives from other eyes.  

> On Saturday 15 May 2004 16:50, David Aldred wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Hello
>   things don't look good.  I thought it may be because you  hadn't got
>   'LISA' 
> running - but it looks as if that's immaterial. Take a look at this
> SUSE archive thread and see if it applies to you.
> 
>   http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2003-May/0045.html
> 
>   I've just checked the above (smb://192.128.0.x) on my computer and
>   it works, 
> but I'm using Konqueror 3.2.2 and Samba 3.0.?
> 
>        Derek
> 
>  (thinks)	Hope that Tux anti-spam responder for generating spam has
>  been 
> tamed.
> 
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David Williams, UK