Running 12 rc2 on EeePC 900. - Longtime Mepis user, but the apps in antiX are very different some the KDE stuff I'm used to.
I'm used to Dolphin to easily browse the samba shares, but can't find an easy way to do it in antiX 12.

In terminal I can run smbtree and see all my samba shares from other computers.
I pyNeighborhood I see nothing.
I poke around alot, and noticed from pyNeighborhood options that there is no file in antiX called /usr/bin/nmblookup BUT that I had one called /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3
So I changed that in pyNeighborhood options, and now I get shares listed in the left side of pyNeighborhood !! Progress!, but is that a bug in the default setup?

I double click on the shares and nothing happens.... that is where I'm hangin it up for the day...

Would appreciate any advice or direction nudging in the meantime.

Thanks!
chatan

I don't use samba, but spacefm file manager is supposed to do it in combination with udevil (both installed)


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may help as well.

Competing priorities have meant I have not looked at antiX-12 at all, however by sheer coincidence on the day of the original post I was looking at pyNeighborhood under antiX-M11.

chatan wrote:...noticed from pyNeighborhood options that there is no file in antiX called /usr/bin/nmblookup BUT that I had one called /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3

In antiX-M11 this is the same, however there is also a link /usr/bin/nmblookup to /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3. As this machine uses antiX M11 Jayaben Desai both pyNeighborhood and this link are provided by default within the distro.

chatan wrote:...I get shares listed in the left side of pyNeighborhood...
...I double click on the shares and nothing happens....

Instead of double-clicking the share icon, try the following:

• Highlight (single-click) the share to be connected
• Above the left-hand-panel in which the shares are listed are a couple of icons. One refreshes the list of shares the other connects to the share that is currently highlighted. Click the connect icon and if successful it will be listed in the right-hand-panel.
• To disconnect a share there is an icon above the right-hand-panel.

Thanks Sam.

SamK wrote:Instead of double-clicking the share icon, try the following:

• Highlight (single-click) the share to be connected
• Above the left-hand-panel in which the shares are listed are a couple of icons. One refreshes the list of shares the other connects to the share that is currently highlighted. Click the connect icon and if successful it will be listed in the right-hand-panel.
• To disconnect a share there is an icon above the right-hand-panel.

I get a mount error:
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

However, the share does get mounted in /home/user/pyNeighborhood/workgroup...etc folder

SamK wrote:In antiX-M11 this is the same, however there is also a link /usr/bin/nmblookup to /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3. As this machine uses antiX M11 Jayaben Desai both pyNeighborhood and this link are provided by default within the distro.

I checked again and I do have /usr/bin/nmblookup file, BUT it is a link to a non-existent file in another folder (which if I try to post on this forum I get a FORBIDDEN error ???) I'll try without the slashes: etc alternatives nmblookup <<< yep that works __{{emoticon}}__

So that must be why I had to change options to directly use /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3 .


So I can now mount my samba shares, but I'm still looking for a way to 'browse' like KDE Dolphin does so easy. I see other posts about spaceFM and smbnetfs, so I'll investigate/tackle those next.

Thanks again!

chatan wrote:I get a mount error:
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

However, the share does get mounted in /home/user/pyNeighborhood/workgroup...etc folder

I also experienced this for a short while. This system uses the testing repo and following a recent update the issue was fixed.

chatan wrote: I checked again and I do have /usr/bin/nmblookup file, BUT it is a link to a non-existent file in another folder (which if I try to post on this forum I get a FORBIDDEN error ???) I'll try without the slashes: etc alternatives nmblookup <<< yep that works __{{emoticon}}__

So that must be why I had to change options to directly use /usr/bin/nmblookup.samba3

As i haven't used antiX-12 at all, I can't comment.

chatan wrote: So I can now mount my samba shares, but I'm still looking for a way to 'browse'...

A couple of ideas to try after mounting...

• If ROX is used to manage the desktop a link can be created on the desktop
  Depending on your choice of file manager a simple bookmark to the share(s) may be OK

chatan wrote:
I get a mount error:
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

However, the share does get mounted in /home/user/pyNeighborhood/workgroup...etc folder

You can eliminate this error message by installing gnome-keyring.
gnome-keyring was removed from antiX-12 earlier in development as a bug in it caused issues with gksu and opening antixcc as root user.
I experienced no such issues after installing in RC2 so apparently the bug is fixed.

afab4 wrote:You can eliminate this error message by installing gnome-keyring.

That worked. No more error message. Thanks!

Just to add - gnome-keyring will be in final.

anticapitalista wrote:Just to add - gnome-keyring will be in final.

Cool.
I think the broken link from /usr/bin/nmblookup should also be fixed in final?
Cheers!

gnome-keyring is still causing issues running lve in VirtualBox. Opening, for example, synaptic via control centre takes ages.

I have a fix

Add

gnome-keyring-daemon &

to the icewm/fluxbox/jwm start up files.

That doesn't seem to work, at least when running live.

Thanks anticap.
On a fresh install of the released antiX 12, pyNeighborhood and mounting samba shares seems to work without a hitch!

BTW In pyNeighborhood, dragging a folder from left window to right window seems to be the easiest way to mount.

Cheers