What is the Redhat 8.0 equivalent to "windows Explorer"

[AnMig]

Just finished instaling redhat 8.0 (I know theres a 9.0) and I am complete newbie to the linux world.

1. Is there a redhat equivalent to windows explorer?
I would like to be able to see the contents of my hard drive.

2. will I be able to see my windows xp files on a network? assuming I can get the network to work.

peace

 

[darktubbly]

1) Kind of, yeah...it's called Nautilus, and it's built in with the Gnome desktop environment. I forget what the icon is called in the 8.0 distro, but it should be something like, AnMig's home.

2) Animal sacrifices followed by setting up Samba. I've done it once and it worked pretty well.

Here's a good site that will get you started on Windows shares (it's under the Filesystems->Connecting to SMB Shares from Linux), and has pretty decent tutorials on other aspects of the system:

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/

Oh, and there's also almighty Google (bowing down).

 

[BurnItDwn]

Another answer to #1, if you run KDE then Konquerer is another explorer like program ...

#2 you need to use Samba to access NT network shares.
I used SWAT to configure mine. It was pretty painless.

 

[AnMig]

thanks for the responses

I guess I am using Nautilus which is built into gnome.
I wasnt sure this was the equivalent since in windows explorer you could see all the programs --size location--files ect
My home is empty.

Will look up samba

I am trying to take it one step at a time.
At this time everything works except my conexant winmodem and my file sharng with my other computers.

I downloaded a couple of conexant drivers for linux and just want to be able to find the files in redhat when I transfer the the drivers (usb pen drive)

Thanks again

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: AnMig
I guess I am using Nautilus which is built into gnome.
I wasnt sure this was the equivalent since in windows explorer you could see all the programs --size location--files ect
My home is empty.

That is normal. The Home directory is created whenever a new user is added to the system and only that user (and root) has full read/write access. All of your saved files will default to that directory (and/or any subdirectories). All of your program settings will be saved there as well, but most will be hidden (ex: ".gnome"). In order to see these hidden files, you can set Nautilus (or Konqueror) to display hidden files.

If you wish to see all directories, you will need to use the "tree" view which should be a tab in the lower left corner of Nautilus.

 

[AnMig]

thanks for response

I can now see alot of stuff (more than I need)

I cannot however find my usb pen drive.
It is recognized as a /dev/sda/sda1

but when I try to open this in a terminal /dev/sda/---i get a permission denied

I just want to be able to read files of the pen drive since this is where I am going to be getting files I download from the internet until I can get my modem working.


any ideas how to find and open the usb pen drive.

 

[darktubbly]

Type in the following commands in a terminal window:

su -l
cd /mnt
mkdir flash_drive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
cd /mnt/flash

Basically, you're becoming root, making a directory called flash_drive under /mnt, and mounting your device using a FAT16/32 file system to /mnt/flash_drive. As you may know, just about everything in Linux from processor temperatures to floppy drives are accessed through the directory tree.

Anyway, copy what you need to your home directory and you should be all set.

BTW, when I first started out, I wish I had some of the tutorials listed here, notably the pieces on permissions, file system structure, compiling programs, and RPM installation.

 

[Nothinman]

/dev/sda1 is the name of the device, to access that device you have to mount it somewhere. I would have thought it would be mounted automatically on insertion in RedHat, but I don't use RedHat so I could be wrong.

 

[AnMig]

thanks for instructions and links, will be spending some time browsing thru those newbie instructions for a while.

The installation went with out a breeze and I thought it would be like windows where you learn as you play around.

mounting drives and the whole typing the commands (yet to be learned) is a alien to me so its giong to be a very slow learning process.

Thanks for your help will browse thru the link you gave me before I bother you guys again.

The GUI was similar to windows so I assumed most of the things can be done thru graphics interface.

peace

 

[Nothinman]

I thought it would be like windows where you learn as you play around.

Some of it is, but a lot of it requires reading because it's so different.

The GUI was similar to windows so I assumed most of the things can be done thru graphics interface.

A lot can be, but most Linux users who are familiar with the command-line prefer it so development of GUI apps to take the place of things that have well understood, simple comand-line tools can be slow.