Problems with xffm/xfsamba and right-click menu in Xfce 4.2.0 (on Slackware 10.1)

[Nick Chorley]

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:

>El lun, 15-08-2005 a las 11:19 +0100, Nick Chorley escribió:
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>>Hi,
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>>I've found no help whatsoever with these problems, I did try the forum 
>>but no-one there was able to help it seemed. Someone there said I should 
>>try and contact Edscott via this mailing list.
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>>My first problem is that I'm not able to see all the machines on the 
>>network when going to "SMB Network" in xffm/xfsamba4. Basically, there 
>>are two other machines on the network besides my own, both run Windows 
>>XP (all are in the same workgroup, too - HOME). If they are both on, 
>>like right now, only one of them appears. Xfsamba has this output at the 
>>bottom:
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>>XFSAMBA> nmblookup -M -- -
>>XFSAMBA> nmblookup -A 10.0.0.1
>>XFSAMBA> smbclient -N -L //650MHZ
>>Domain=[650MHZ] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>>Domain=[650MHZ] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
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>>Does anyone know how I can get it to display both machines?
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>On the first request, xfsamba resolves the masterbrowser, on the second
>it resolves the workgroups. It takes one more double click on the
>workgroup to see both machines. 
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>If you open the workgroup and only see one machine, then it is a problem
>with the smb network (the smb protocol is not too robust). Both machines
>have to be up for a while so that the master browser can construct the
>browse table. Whatever you see when you doubleclick on //650MHZ is not
>what xffm browses, but rather what the master browser does. That's the
>way smb works. Configuring winNS for your XP boxes also helps. 
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>Also, if you just turned one of the XP boxes and don't want to wait
>until the master browser gets wind of it, just use goto function in xffm
>and type "//netbios_name" where netbios name is the box you just turned
>on. 
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>>My next problem is that there's an entry on the right-click menu that I 
>>want to remove. The other day, I opened KDE's Konsole in Xfce and it 
>>added itself to the menu. It is in the section that has various 
>>categories, like Accessories, Development and so on. If I run 
>>xfce4-menueditor, the relevant line seems to have ---include--- and 
>>system in the Name and Command columns, respectively (judging by the 
>>pattern of separators in there and the one on the menu itself). Someone 
>>told me to check menu.xml as well and I looked at both the one in 
>>~/.config/xfce4/desktop and /etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/desktop, but all I see is
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>><!--
>>The next line includes the autogenerated menu at the current level. If
>>you want, you can put this in its own submenu.
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>><include type="system" style="simple" unique="true" visible="true"/>
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>>Is there a file or something that I can edit for this "system" thing?
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>The easy way is to open the desktop plugin and in the menu tab click on
>the menu editor button. If I am not mistaken, you can simple use the
>menu editor to turn off whatever entry you want removed from the menu.
>You might have to tell whatever program is using the menu module to
>reload the module (restart or turn menu on/off).
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What is the "desktop plugin"? I hope you don't mean Settings > Desktop 
Settings > Menu tab, because all that does is run xfce4-menueditor. I 
don't even know how to find out what program is using the menu module, heh.

Thanks for the reply, though :).