On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:19:01 -0400, jim wrote:

> "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

is your network card working ?

also try the console programs:
smbtree, smbclient, nmblookup ...