Browsing a Windows shared directory?
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Sun Nov 16 16:45:17 UTC 2003
On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:36, Bryan Anderson wrote:
> Dual-booting - when logged into Windows, I can see the two shared
> directories on my other WindowsXP box. I can read, write, delete,
> etc, no problem.
>
> Now - how do I do the same thing in Linux? I want to be in Linux
> and still be able to access the Windows shares on the other XP box.
>
> In Konqueror do I have to type smb:/// into the address bar or
> something? Doing that gives me an error that there are no
> workgroups in my local network.
>
> Very stuck here.....
>
I just tried this in Konqueror and it seems to work fine. The syntax to
view a Windows share across the network:
smb://<server>
or
smb://<ip_address> (smb://192.168.1.3 for example)
If it's password protected it will ask for the necessary login/password
credentials.
Regards, Mike Klinke
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