You obvious understand very little about how this stuff works. Suffice to say, it's not that simple.

Yes, wizard mounter has some dependency issues. It happens with applications, especially new ones. If you've got root access (i.e.- ssh or R&D mode enabled) Then you can do-

# apt-get install wizard-mounter

in xterm.

If you don't know what 'root access' is there's another way-

1. enable red pill mode. Open the application manager. then goto tools->application catalog. In the window that appears, click 'new'. Then in the web address field, remove the http:// and type 'matrix'. Then press 'cancel'. If you do it right, you'll see a 'which pill' dialog. Click 'red'. Now browse for wizard-mounter and click to install. It should succeed.

2. Once you've got wizard-mounter installed, you may need to load the cifs module manually. (This can be problematic without root access. If you run linux, use the flasher to enable R&D mode, otherwise, installing an ssh server/client is recomended. ) Anyway, as root you may need to do-

# insmod /lib/modules/current/cifs.ko

in xterm before the program will work. (If you try to mount and the program crashes, the module is not loaded, try again.)

As for being able to install stuff like this easily, cut Nokia some slack. Accessing protected shares isn't included with the device, nor supported. Most of what we're doing here is like that. But they've created an open platform which we can hack. The functionality you seek is being developed by third parties, not by Nokia.

They've built the OS, we build the apps. Moreover, most of the apps being developed are open source and free.

If you want easy, get an ipod touch. On the bright side, You won't have to hack it. But on the other hand, you won't be able to hack it, should you want to do something interesting.

my advice- Do some research, use ITT and google, play around. It's not as hard as it looks, you'll end up with a really cool gadget, and you may even discover that hacking is FUN!

Cheers,
kernelpanic

Thanks for the tips, maybe I'll try wizard mounter. The funny part is that NONE of my vista shares are password protected, so in theory I should be able to see them.

*sigh*

Maybe the next version of the OS will be more Vista friendly!

I have no issues getting root access. Thanks for the write up, I appreciate it man, but still no go.

# apt-get install wizard-mounter

this gives me, r34 package not installable error

Doing it through red pill mode, Wizard install gives me the usual, need dependancy nonsense, then application manager crashes. Just odd

To continue my rant, and this is not directed at those kind enough to help... just a general rant..sorry.

I don't agree that it can't be easier to install things like this. All it takes is a little obvious planning. If the developer of said program knows everyone is going to need a dependancy, then write a script to check for it, if it's not there prompt the user with the option to install and provide a link to grab it. instead we get some poorly written readme file pointing to a ftp that is a bloody mess, and we are trying to type all of this stuf into a silly onscreen kb most of the time. Or at least, on the very page to download Wizard on maemo, have the link for the dependancy right next to it. other programs do this, why can't they all do it. These geniuses that program this stuff tend to forget how to explain things a little better for the rest of the world to understand imho.

Linux has always been more work then play. It don't mind hacking things here and there, but I have enough things to "hack" as it is, and this device just needs to "work", and the more I use it, the more it's crashes and lock ups are pissing me off.

I think Nokia is partially responsible for this. Being able to access windows shares is a bloody no brainer. SMB support is available on the most trivial of devices. Of course people are going to want to access their files on other windows based machines, there is no excuse to not have this natively and should have been there since day 1.

This IT platform is already dead imho, and other companies are going to surpass nokia if they haven't already. I have it to serve certain functions when it works, I do like fiddling with it most of the time, but the 3-4 months I have had it, I have seen no progress on some of the most trivial of things like this smb support. I hate apple, and you mention the ipod, and you do realize how easy the itouch is hacked? and the progress that scene is making is leaps above what I see here in the time they have had it. Nokia isn't serious enough about this platform, they are guinea pigging us as far as I'm concerned and leaving the real work to the kindness and talent of the open source community probably because it's free for them. Lunux is some ways was a mistake to use, a blessing in others....in my near 30 years of computing, that is the way linux has always been and always will be.

There should be no "hacking" involved to simply access a smb share, that is foolishness and a prime example of how this platform is doomed to fail.

Hmm...is the iPhone able to mount Windows/Samba shares and access them directly? This is news...

I have been trying to install wizard mounter, got the same error when doing apt-get as root.

In the wizard-mounter readme it states:
"""
Wizard Mounter 1.0 -- README --

Wizard Mounter depends on :

rx-34-kernel-nfs-modules
portmap

both could be installed adding the repository :

deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras bora free non-free
""""

I was thinking "deb" was command, but it gives and error. I did go the application manger and add http://repository.maemo.org/extras bora free non-free. But that didn't help.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Has anyone been able to get this to work? I've tried the Wizard Mounter and when I try to mount the drive via NFS, the connection times out. When I select Samba, I the following error message.

[mount] Ops! An error occurred:
mount //192.1.1.1/D$ is write-protected, mounting read only
mount: mounting //192.1.1.1/D$ on /home/user/MyDocs/Remote_Filesystem/D$@192.1.1.1 failed

I have the D drive set up for sharing, and I'm using the proper login credentials. I also changed the network security settings in Vista.

Um, no, but thanks for playing!