Accessing Network Shares

[PaulofLaxey]

I have just installed PCLinuxOS, and am impressed with the Control Centre which allows much better control of the system than other distros I have tried.

However I am struggling with Netowrk shares.

After trying what seemed obvious to me, and failing  , I followed the instructions given in :- http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200909/page05.html

(More or less followed, since the Control Centre layout seems to have changed a bit since that was written.)

This has allowed me to 'see' my PCLinuxOS machine (called Garage), on other (Linux) machines on my Network.  I can created files remotely and was feeling very happy .

However, if I try to browse other network drives on Garage (PcManFM --> Go --> Network Drives, I can see the other machines (I also see Garage TWICE). But if I click on one of them I get the error

"The specified location is not mounted"

I also went to control Centre and went to

"Access Windows (SMB) shared drives and directories"
Here I defined a mount point for one of my computers (l1210 Desktop).
This tells me that it has created a mount point at /mnt/Desktop

Although I would want to be able to get to this via Go --> Network, I cannot browse it at /mnt/Desktop either.  I can see the Directory, but I cannot see any contents.

Have I missed something somewhere?

I've browsed the forum, but although several people have had similar issues, no answers jump out at me.  Anyone able to advise? 

From what I have seen so far PCLinuxOS looks like a distro I would like to standardise on, but getting shares to show up is pretty important

Paul

[Just17]

I use only Linux and so do not use SAMBA .......  I use NFS for sharing .......  set up through the Control Centre to share out, and an entry in /etc/fstab on the machine that wants to mount it.

After that it is a matter of the permissions granted whether I have RO or RW access.

.....  but maybe you need SAMBA for Windows shares .....

[PaulofLaxey]

It is true that I am now 90% Linux, but I do still have a window$ machine that needs to see the rest of the Network.

I have found that if I enter the name of the computer I want to see on 'Garage' in the address bar, then I can get to it.  Doing this causes the location to be mounted.  It appears that the Go --> Network option is failing to auto-mount the share.

As a workaround, I have set up bookmarks for my other computers on the Garage PC, and these work just fine.  Guess this is an acceptable solution, but I find it odd that 'Go --> Netowrk' does not work on PCLinuxOS, but it does work on Lubuntu which also uses LXDE.  Since the option is there I would expect it to 'just work'

[agmg]

Maybe these 2 articles published in our Magazine can help:

Simple Samba Setup Under PCLinuxOS KDE
How To Set Up Easy Samba File Sharing in PCLinuxOS

[PaulofLaxey]

pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201202/page11.html (Simple Samba Setup Under PCLinuxOS KDE)
is the instructions I followed in my original post.  This got my PcLinuxOS box viewable on other PC's but I was not able to see other PCs on that box.

I'll look at the other article when I have more time, it looks as though it is quite a lot to go through.

thanks  Paul