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 17:00 +0100, Nick Chorley escribió:
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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.
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>There are things you can do. You can configure a winNS on your windows
>boxes, and make sure your master browser is on all the time. The best
>solution I've found is to enable SMB on a linux server which shares
>printers and files for all windows boxes. This box is the master broswer
>as well since it's up all the time.
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>OTH, if you don't want to go through all that trouble, and you turn your
>windows boxes on and off all the time (and thus will not be in the
>browse table immediately anyhow) just click on the "goto" option in any
>of the xffm GUI's. As a path write "//name" where name is the name of
>the box you want to connect to. This will put an icon in the GUI which
>you just have to open to see the shares. 
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Genius! Thanks a lot :).