The method I used before was just using Nautilus 2.20.0 > network > Windows Network > select the server and brows from there. Never got any error messages, it worked fine. Turns out I ended up doing a reinstall and this time I didn't select the "File Server" option, works fine now. I will post a new thread and ask how to go about setting up file sharing. Thanks...
-Dave On Mar 24, 4:40 am, Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:49 -0700, dbpbandit posted: > > > I've been experimenting with several distributions of Linux over the past > > few months and I finally decided on Debian for many reasons. Currently I > > have it running on a couple of laptops and an old PC. The PC has two HDD, > > one has Debian Lenny and the other has Fedora 9 so I could switch between > > the two. The HDD with Debian died last week so I put in a working drive > > and ran the Debian Net-Install but this time I selected to "File Server" > > option. Everything seems OK as far as the OS but now I can't brows to the > > other Windows systems on the network like I could before. Does this have > > something to do with the fact that it's now running SAMBA? Is there > > something I need to do to brows to the other network machines? I'm pretty > > new to Linux so any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.. > > Dave, you're more likely to get useful answers if you provide a bit more > information. > > What method did you use to browse the network "before". Include any error > messages you receive when you now try. Otherwise, it isn't easy to guess > where the problem might be occurring and many people who might be able to > help you will just read your post and move on. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
