Can't browse network in Mandrake 8.1?

[Sparky Anderson]

First off I am a Linux newbie, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can and I've tried and tried to fix this problem before coming to you guys for help.

When I bring up Konqueror and click on Network, then Local Network I get the error: "Could not connect to host localhost"

I know that I can communicate with the other PC's on my network because I can ping them and I've even set up Samba with a share on the linux PC so that the other PC's on the network (all Windows machines) can access that share.

I don't understand or figure out how it can't connect to "localhost", that seems like a rather odd error to me.

Any help you guys and gals may have would be great.

Thanks.

 

[Chatterjee]

try the following in the location bar of Konqueror

smb://[computername]/[sharename]

 

[Sparky Anderson]

Thanks that worked. So I can access the other machines. If I try to use smb://tigers/public which is the share on the Linux machine that works too. Also, smb://localhost/public works too.

So now the problem is, why do i get the error: "Could not connect to host localhost" when clicking on the "Local Network" icon?

 

[lorenzo]

This is just a guess, but check the properties of that icon and see what it is actually trying to connect to. For instance. opening up a browser and typing in localhost will do nothing if an http server is not running. If you want that icon to connect you to the public share on localhost, make sure that that path is present.

 

[Sparky Anderson]

Yea, I tried that but there is no Properties to click on and view. I've also scoured the menu but can't find anything.

I can put in localhost into a browser and it works, just brings up the default apache confirmation page because I haven't changed that page yet.

 

[Chatterjee]

nobody knows how to configure that section of Konqueror. It was just VERY POORLY designed. It uses some tool called LISa (do a google search for it) but i don't know how to use even that...

if you have nautilus, you can try just typing smb:// in the location bar and it will be like network neighborhood

-S

 

[Sparky Anderson]

ahh....ok

thx for the help

 

[Netopia]

It behaves the EXACT same way in RedHat 7.2

Joe