"goarilla" <kevin.paulus@skynet.remove-this.be> wrote in message
news:484d16ef$0$2794$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:38:02 +0000, goarilla wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:20:01 -0400, jim wrote:
>>
>>> I loaded PCLinuxOS 2007, opened Konquerer, Go > Network Folders > Local
>>> Network. And, I got....
>>>
>>> "The Lisa daemon does not appear to be running. In order to use the
>>> LAN Browser the Lisa daemon must be installed and activated by the
>>> system administrator."
>>>
>>> Still can't browse XP shared folders.
>>>
>>> WTF? Do Linux distro people REALLY believe that a Linux user will
>>> never have to browse folders on a Windows network? And, if they know
>>> that their users will probably have to do so, why doesn't this #@%#
>>> work out of the box?
>>>
>>> jim
>>
>> try to put smb://
>> in the location bar and then ... press enter
>>
> i mean smb:/

Yep. tried that too.... Still nothing.

I am really hoping that this 3 hour long OpenSuse install will talk to my XP
boxes "out of the box".

Supposedly that was one of their strong points for joingin forces with
Microsoft.

We'll see if the install ever completes.

jim