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

[Nick Chorley]

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:

>El mié, 17-08-2005 a las 15:04 +0100, Nick Chorley escribió:
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>>All I get from that is "Connection to HOME failed".
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>Yes, then the problem has nothing to do with xfsamba. The problem is
>with your master browser //650MHZ. 
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>MS decided that smb network browsing was going to work like a web page.
>The only machine that actually does any browsing is the master server.
>All other machines just ask the master browser what it found in the
>network. That's what xfsamba does too. From the output you can see that
>the master browser does not have any workstation in it's "web page" (the
>output of smbclient -L).
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>Usually this problem is due to the machine just becoming a master
>browser recently (the acting master browser was turned off or there was
>no master browser and //650MHZ was just turned on). You have to let a
>certain amount of time pass.
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>Also, if you want to see linux/solaris/bsd boxes in the smb network, you
>*must* have the samba service on that particular box up and running. If
>you do not have samba service running on the box with xfsamba, then you
>can browse other boxes on the smb network but they cannot see you (the
>penguin is underwater).
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>BTW. The bug that was fixed in 4.3.3.1 was that xfsamba could
>query //HOME instead of //650MHZ, which you verified does not produce
>anything useful. In your case this is not happening.
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Heh, so there's nothing I can do? Oh well, thanks anyway. I only have 
one Linux box on the network and that's mine, so that's fine. The 
Windows boxes can see it and browse the shares.

Thanks again.