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[ICanoe2]

I have tried following rarsa's instructions and gone through this thread numerous times however with limited success in file sharing.

Problem 1 - Seeing my XP machine
Linneighbourhood works great => no problems
In Lineighbourhood I can see the following
Service: //DININGROOM/Denise
Mountpoint: /root/mnt/DININGROOM/Denise
Command line => problems
I tried the following commands
smbmount //192.168.0.188/Denise/mnt/DININGROOM
result = cannot resolve mount point
smbmount//192.168.0.188/Denise/mnt/DININGROOM
result = no such file or directory
I'm still not sure if there should be a space between smbmount and //

After reading further in the post I tried various permutations of the smbmount command as above with the exception being that I replaced the IP address with DININGROOM (the computer name) with results similar to the above.
HELP PLEASE


Problem 2 - Seeing Puppy via my XP machine - SOLVED (see below)
I again followed the instructions in the thread.
I tried to add a user named "localuser" via the following command
adduser -h/root localuser
result = login already in use
I tried to add a user named "share" via thr following command
adduser -h/root share
result = SUCCESS
I then added name and password and optimism was high.
I went to my XP machine and explored to this location but the only thing I can see is the readme file called betaftpd.anon
How do I see my files and where do I enter this username and password information?
PLEASE HELP!

*After posting I played some more on my XP machine and found "Login as... in the file menu. Oops
Hurray, I can see all of my files both ways. No it's just the command line so that I can make this available with start-up

[trapster]

If your xp machine is //192.168.0.188/Denise
and you have a directory /mnt/DININGROOM on your puppy box.

Then:

[MU]

Very nice Howto, it should be added to Linuxneighbourhood in Puppy.

I have a problem though:
Connecting to the XP-machine works fine, and I can copy files among Puppy and XP.
But special characters are shown wrong.

As this is a common problem in applications based on Gtk1 (Rox-filer 1.2), I tried it in the Gnome-Filemanager Nautilus (that can display unicode, as it is based on Gtk2).
Still no joy, even after installing some truetype-fonts (the free dejavu, and tahoma from Windows).

In Nautilus, I can create a file like test-�.txt.
But in Windows, it displays as test-�.txt.

If I create such a file test-�.txt in Windows, Nautilus displays it as
test2-�.txt
So the "�" is replaced with a unicode-placeholder "0081".

Does someone know, if there maybe is a parameter that can be used to mount the share with a different charset or codepage?

Mark

[MU]

ok, without linneighbourhood I found a solution:

smbmount //MACHINE/folder /root/mnt/MACHINE/folder -o guest,codepage=cp437

I'm writing a script at work that scans the network for shares, and then automatically mounts all available folders in /root/LocalNetwork/ (those without password). Will continue/finish it in 2 days I think.

this is how the script looks like at moment:
http://dotpups.de/tests/Muppy-SMB
It does not work at moment, as I added some test-code, and were interrupted then.

Mark

[gliezl]

Wow, it's an improved smblogin script.
Just tell me Mark when its ready, I'll be glad to test it.

[pakt]

Very interesting, Mark. Your script looks like a good example of what can be done with PuppyBasic.

Hmm, I have been planning to write a script that will run on a MicroClientJr with a remote control interface to turn house lamps on and off. PuppyBasic looks like it might be a good candidate for the job!

Paul

[John Doe]

[MU]

my script will not work because of a logical error

I wanted to use netstat, to determine the PCs, that are in the network.
Then I could try to run smbclient on the found IP-adresses, to look up, if there are Shares.
This worked during my first test, as I already were connected to the XP machine using LinNeighbourHood or smbclient.
But if you don't run those first, the XP-machine is not visible in netstat.
So of course my "auto-detection" can not work.

I found no solution yet.
Only a hint, that in KDE you can type smb:/ in Konqueror, to list all Windows-shares.

So it must be possible somehow, the question is:
how do I do it without the KDE-mechanisms?

More googling and tests are required, don't expect a quick solution.

Mark

[GuestToo]

maybe this would help:
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127591

[MU]

Thanks G2, as usual a brilliant suggestions
I found it in the samba-dotpup from sunburnt.

Runs without error after creating a symlink, so you don't need to install the whole huge dotpup.

You can get it here:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Network/samba-utilities/

I will test it on monday at work.

Thanks!
Mark

[MU]

no, findsmb did not work either.

But it seems that "smbtree" can be used.

./smbtree -N| tr -s " "|cut -f2|grep '\\'

This will list the host.
example:

[gabriel_007]

Dear Friends
I tried to follow these steps once again after my xp installations and upgrading to puppy 2.14 (to let puppy see a windows share folder). LinNeighborhood displays this after I try to scan as user:

[giac_fab]

Does exist a way to mount puppy share into /mnt/ ????

I have a puppy pc with video files and a pc (also with puppy) connected to my tv; I want stream the video files without download it, with ftp I must download the file before open it ........

[sunburnt]

Hi giac_fab; I assume you want to stream from the Puppy PC to other local PCs?
One way is to install the Samba server, Puppy & Win. PCs can use the shares.
MU's package is: Muppy-SMB