Hi,
All I did was take the deb files extract the base files from the data file for Samba, Samba Common and linneighborhood. Then I just copied these into the root folder most residing at usr level. Then I found the user samba directories and related libs and conf files etc and were neccessay made absolute links into the root directory equivalents. I am able to see all shares and also run testparm which shows my simple smb.conf is ok. The shares are visible after mounting in Linneighborhood and I have been able to transfer files from share folders on the LLL and Kubuntu Linux PC. Although I can see windows vista laptop/pc I cannot as yet access the shares. But this is something I have some trouble with in kubuntu anyway.
The problem I have to say its functional is that most of the text labels are non existent in the linneighborhood screen or garbled or shadows. This has also affected the messenger client pidgin. It was full functioning before but now when I connect there is no protocols active and cant connect to my logins.Just shows password and usr name but says unknown. if you look at the protocol section (ADD) in pidgin it is empty save a single half/fractional single character. I think if someone figures out what is broken with respect to pidgin and linneighborhood then it would be ok. I am using it to transfer files etc without problems since linneighborhood uses MC as a file manager. Unless there is another network manager that works similar to linneighborhood we could try that's in etch. If someone could tell me how to upload pics it would illustrate things better. Fred
