David,
of course it is possible that Lake's problem is not with is N800/OS2008
but the browsing capability in his Windows Workgroup, or in the
unlikely case that he has an Active Directory domain, For example, it
is possible that the Windows Service named "Computer Browser" is stopped
or disabled on the Windows system in question.
One way to sort out this kind of problem is to install/run Wireshark
(fork/successor of Ethereal) on one of the PC's whose share that Ryan is
trying to "browse" from his Nokia N800 and see what if anything gets
captured at the SMB/CIFS level.
Here for those who are not already aware, is the url to the www page at
the Wireshark www site for downloading the Windows XP version of the
software:
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
As the download notes indicate, the download also includes WINPCAP which
must be installed on the Windows system that will be capturing the packets.
I don't know but perhaps someone has ported wireshark to the n800 which
might be a useful thing despite the small screen of the Internet Tablets.
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
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David Leinbach wrote:
> That's interesting that it doesn't work you for. It works fine for me
> (n800 with os2008). I open file manager and after a few seconds any
> machines with SMB shares (Windows machines or Linux machines with
> Samba) show up.
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Lake Stevens Dental
> <lakestevensdental@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lakestevensdental@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> it would seem logical that a tablet should be able to log onto
> a lan
> >> and access files via wifi. If there's an app for that, it's not
> >> very well described or marketed. In contrast, my daughter's
> eee pc
> >> wifi logs on to our home lan and network resoures show up in the
> >> default file manager's startp page. I'm not sure why this the
> >> the tablet's file manager doesn't work this way. Seems like a
> 'duh' as
> >> far as obvious utility goes, but here we are without it.
> > This should be built in to the file manager - open it up, and any
> > windows/samba shares that don't require a logon are be there.
> Should be, IMHO, but it doesn't work on my lan... At least not with
> the generic setup that my n800 2008OS has. As noted before, it would
> seem logical for the system to default this way, but doesn't happen.
>
> --
>
> Always, Dr Fred C
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