axel_2078 Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 (edited) Ok, I read the FAQ on how to set up Samba networking and I did it. I'm networking Mandrake Linux 10.0 to Win2K. Anyway, it went fine. Mandrake could see Windows shares and Windows could see Mandrake shares. I even managed to change the Mandrake workgroup name to match my Windows workgroup name. Anyway, I noticed last night that the shares seem to have disappeared. I opened up Konqueror and clicked on the smb4k icon under /home/kevin and it just displayed a blank screen. I then typed in smb:\ into the URL bar, which also displayed a blank screen. Then I tried going to start>internet>file sharing>smb4k. Normally, this would show my shared directories, or I'd be able to add shared directories, but nothing was displayed. I clicked on the "Home" workgroup (my Windows workgroup) at the top of the screen and it just hanged. I closed it out, reopened it and clicked on the "networking" tab, and it also hanged. What happened to my shared folders? Am I supposed to manually start Samba networking after each restart? Is there something I forgot to do? A friend of mine running Linspire told me that you have to manually map the shared folders and somehow save the configuration, or else the shared directories will appear blank the next time you login to check them. Please help. Edited September 2, 2004 by axel_2078 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightcrank Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 you can map from consloe however i dont know how, and its a pain unless u know what your doing, but smb4k mounts the drives so you dont need to do it from colsole, it saves them in your home directory under "username"/smb4k/"computername"/"share" username is your login name computer name is the networked computer share is the folder/ drive that is shared, and it saves them there so if u reboot it shouldl still be there, u just have to mount it in smb4k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 So, I have to remount the shared drives each time I reboot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightcrank Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 yeah i see your problem, every time u reboot you have to re-mount. i have the same problem, there must be another way. if i find out ill post here. if any one else knows please post here also :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 Take a look in /etc/fstab You will see the entry for your Samba share(s) there. There will probably be an entry in there that says nomount or noauto (probably noauto). Change it to auto and the shares should mount on every boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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