Salvete! I have a machine running CentOS 6.2. In the GUI, if I click on "Network", I get a messagebox saying: "Unable to mount location – Failed to retrieve share list from server"
I can ping the machine from my windows computer on the network, and I can also ping the windows computer from the linux server. My Windows computers on the network all have their file sharing turned on and are able to see each other.
Samba is configured and running, nmb is running, and I can connect just fine to the box from my windows computer using Putty. In samba, I have specified the workgroup name.
How do I make the Windows Network visible to the Linux machine? I don't want to mount a share, I only want the Linux machine to see that there other computers on the network.
Best Answer
It is not clear what you are trying to achieve exactly: Do you want to mount a "share" from the windows box on the Linux machine?
For that you do only need the samba client, not a samba daemon.
To mount the share try
mount -t cifs -o <username>,<password> //<servername>/<sharename> /mnt/point/or any of the other methods described at Connecting to a Samba Share.Nautilus and Konqueror provide options to browse a Windows network.
In Konqueror, Go -> Network folders -> Samba Shares
In Nautilus, Places -> Network -> Windows Network