[kde-doc-english] Re: Regarding KnetAttach

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Sonntag, 12. Juni 2011, um 19:01:49 schrieb Birger Kollstrand:
> Hi ,
> 
> First of all , thank you for the good efforts in documenting KDE.
> 
> My concern this time is that I tried setting up KNetAttach to connect
> to a SAMBA share. Which I do not manage......
> 
From my memory, not experience cause I never had a samba share to connect 
to:
KNetattach is just a simple gui for "smb://192.168.1.3/SharedFolder" or 
"smb://computernamewithSambaShare/SharedFolder".

If the windows share is properly configured, libsmbclient (required for kdelbs) 
installed and it does not work, then it is usually a name resolving problem.

Did you try to enter the ip of the computer with the windows share instead of 
the name into the server field?

Using the computer name in the server field and browsing for smb shares usually 
works without problem, if either a WINS-Server is activ in the local network 
or if the ip's/name's of all computers are added to /etc/hosts.

Otherwise a broadcast is used to find the share, but before that all local dns 
servers in /etc/resolv.conf are queried. Slow response from a dns server - 
happnes often with a local router as dns server - may delay network browsing 
up to a timeout so that shares are not found.

> In the documentation there is a walkthrough of a ftp connection, but
> not for WebDAV or SAMBA sshares. It would be really good if that could
> be added. I guess most standard users uses Windows file sharing.
> 
Does anyone on list have acces to a windows share or WebDAV and can write such 
a walkthrough?

Birger, if you somehow manage to get access to the smb share, it would be 
great to report that here, maybe we could add that as troubleshooting section 
to the documentation.

Thanks.

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Burkhard Lück