[wellylug] Connecting Ubuntu to local LAN

[Daniel Pittman]

John Durham <john.modec at xtra.co.nz> writes:

> Ubuntu is great at accessing the internet, but when it comes to a
> local network it seems to speak a foreign language. For instance, I
> have a win 98 machine on the local network that was used to write my
> novel. 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?

Easily?  You should be able to put 'smb://win95host/' into the location
bar and comfortably browse the shares.

If that /isn't/ working then we have to start asking why.

Regards,
        Daniel