Originally Posted by Raif

download wizard mounter from the repo's!

I am running this and it allows me to access the Suse samba shares at work and my ubuntu samba shares at home.

Job done

Originally Posted by dchky

I like the linux way a tad better, it's more informative : )

@josh The N900 does do SMB.

This assumes you have 'nmap', 'rootsh', and 'smbclient' on your N900, that you are slightly familiar with x-term, and that you know a bit about the network you are connected to - including IP addresses. (Edit: and that you know how to fix the broken samba-common.postinst script - you don't really have to do this, but it'll save you having to read apt-get complaints)

# nmap -sP 192.168.4.0/24 | awk /report/

It'll spit out a list of any IP addresses that were awake and responding to the ping.

eg:

Code:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.6
Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.8
Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.14
Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.201
Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.210
Nmap scan report for 192.168.4.220

To find out more information about each computer I'll then use nmap again to do a port scan:

(My NAS for example)

Code:

# nmap 192.168.4.14
Starting Nmap 5.21 (http://nmap.org) at 2010-08-26 19:10 PHT
Interesting ports on 192.168.4.14:
Not shown: 992 closed ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
21/tcp  open  ftp
22/tcp  open  ssh
23/tcp  open  telnet
80/tcp  open  http
139/tcp open  netbios-ssn
443/tcp open  https
445/tcp open  microsoft-ds
515/tcp open  printer

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.16 seconds

Just looking at that jibberish I can see port 139 and 445 are open, so I know there is some Microsoft business happening in there somewhere.

After this I might use 'smbclient' to see what is being shared, in my case my NAS has a user / pass restriction, so your incantation of smbclient may vary to suite your environment.

Code:

dchky:~# smbclient -U dchky -L 192.168.4.14
creating lame upcase table
creating lame lowcase table
Enter dchky's password: 
Domain=[NAS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	Volume_1        Disk      
	lp              Printer   USB Printer
	Volume_1-1      Disk      
	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (DNS-323)
Domain=[NAS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------
	BLINKY               DNS-323

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
	NAS                  BLINKY
	WORKGROUP            TINGS-MOBILE

From here it's a simple case of mount -t cifs blah blah if you want to mount the remote share directly on the N900.

Anyway... That's how I do it. It might not be quite as easy as point and click, but it certainly is more... interesting... if you're at the mall on free wifi : )

Re: "View Entire Network"
There should be an app for Windows boxes. I don't mind nmap - but I don't know how to mount.