[wellylug] Connecting Ubuntu to local LAN

Jonathan Harker jon at jon.geek.nz
Fri Aug 1 00:31:28 NZST 2008


John Durham wrote:
> It has 
> been kept using netbeui up to now for privacy reasons. Its local TCP 
> address is either 10.0.0.2 or 192.168.0.12 (there are 2 network cards in 
> it).
> 
> Drive D: has been shared over the network on TCP and NETBEUI.
> 
> The question is obviously how to have it rejoin the network so Ubuntu 
> can see the shared files. Is there a reasonable way to do this?

In the location bar of the File Browser (go Places -> Home Folder and
press Ctrl+L) type either of

   smb://192.168.0.12/
   smb://10.0.0.2/

Or even try

   smb:///

to get a list of domains and/or workgroups

J



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