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299433 2004-12-03 19:11:00 Hi everyone.

In part three of the old computer's rescurration, there are networking troubles. I've managed to use the CD-ROM i swapped out into the old computer, and installed Mandrake 9. I've got the Network all set up. Ping works, and it can browse the internet (I'm currently browsing the mozilla update site from it). But it dosen't show up in network places. If I click "View Workgroup Computers", all I get is WindowsXP (The computer I'm on).

In the mandrake control center, where's the option to set the workgroup, or is it windows only? 		Megaman (344)
299434 2004-12-03 19:29:00 > Hi everyone.
>
> In part three of the old computer's rescurration,
> there are networking troubles. I've managed to use
> the CD-ROM i swapped out into the old computer, and
> installed Mandrake 9. I've got the Network all set
> up. Ping works, and it can browse the internet (I'm
> currently browsing the mozilla update site from it).
> But it dosen't show up in network places. If I click
> "View Workgroup Computers", all I get is WindowsXP
> (The computer I'm on).
>
> In the mandrake control center, where's the option to
> set the workgroup, or is it windows only?

LIN Neighbourhood runs of of a box out of a box on the start menue, as opposed to in the MDK Control center.

In the gui Check in the controll center that the eth 0 is up.

Then go to lin neighbourhood, you may need to play with acess types and user name and passwords ect, firewalls in doze can also create issues in this process also addresses, dhcp issues.

If you disconnect the net from both and drop all the firewalls then do some searching, names may have to be forced in searching, as doze has been trained not to copperate with linux, and each new doze update frequently exaberates this now.

What doze file system do you have, ntfs will compound your problems, doze should see the nix machine but unless you have a fat partition available on the nix machine, this "sight" will probably be all you will get.

That should help you for 5 minuites, then some guru may arrive to aid you.

D. 		drb1 (4492)
299435 2004-12-03 21:38:00 In a nutshell, for you to "serve" files to windows, you need to run the samba server:
nzlinuxfaq.orcon.net.nz

To mount a windows share:
mount -t smbfs -o username=UserJoebloggs,password=Passw0rd //192.168.0.2/sharedfolder /mnt/mountpoint 		Chilling_Silence (9)
299436 2004-12-03 21:43:00 The problem is that never in my entire experience with networking have I managed to get network neighbourhood to work. Well, that's a lie - it worked back when i had Windows 95.

To cut a long story short - the broadcast method by which computer appear in the network neighbourhood is far from reliable - don't lose sleep over it.

Infact, none of my computers show up in it. 		Growly (6)
299437 2004-12-03 21:57:00 Thats why I _always_ open Windows Explorer and in the address bar type:
\\192.168.0.2\
Replace that with the IP/PC Name and you're set! 		Chilling_Silence (9)
299438 2004-12-03 22:00:00 >\\192.168.0.2\

Yeah I took to doing that back when Windows 95 stopped working... quite useful really.

The most useful tool I've found within windows has to be the net use command - it overcomes many obstacles that explorer will simply not allow. 		Growly (6)
299439 2004-12-03 22:05:00 Oh?

Any chance you can educate us a little... Share a tip or two? 		Chilling_Silence (9)
299440 2004-12-03 22:13:00 Well, for example, I run a domain and my personal PC is not on it. I therefore have many problems mapping network drives.

This is where the net use command comes in. It allows me to map a drive by using a password and username that I could not manually enter in explorer (without difficulty).

The syntax is:

net use [local drive] [resource] [password] /USER:[account location] \ [username]

So to connect to "share", on SERVER, which is on another domain - and I want to use a username (administrator) and password (apass) which is stored on the user database of that PC, whist mapping it to local drive G:, I would type into command prompt the following:

net use g: \\SERVER\share apass /USER:SERVER\administrator

(yes you can substitute IP addresses for NetBIOS names)

This is actually EXTREMELY useful, because, as we all known, there are many problems with connecting to PCs that do not have identical accounts. It is perfect for mapping drives when links are not reliable, and like in some poor wireless networks, broadcasts do not get around all too much.

No longer will you need to create identical accounts, you can just use /USER:computername\accountyouwanttouse !

Hope that helps :D 		Growly (6)
299441 2004-12-03 22:14:00 (Ironic that this is a Linux networking thread and that's for Windows) Growly (6)
299442 2004-12-04 01:04:00 Oh, Cheers for that Growly. Now in old, crappy Win98 computers, I don't ave to create a user that my server recognizes. Just use that command. Excellent george12 (7)
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