[ale] Browsing MS Network

[Wandered Inn]

hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> 
> Arafat writes:
>  > I know this is probably a very basic qn, but I'm lost. How can I browse an
>  > MS network? Basically, I have a win2k and a win98 box at work. I have a
>  > debian laptop. I need to access files shared out on the win boxes from my
>  > laptop.

You can access the files via either smbmount or smbclient. smbmount will
mount it like a share, smbclient will access it kinda like ftp.

There are some gui tools you can use that will present shares on a
browser, like M$ network 'hood, although I think they require Samba. 
Check out the info at:

http://us2.samba.org/samba/GUI/

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