Komba2 searches the network at starting. You can't use the function reload before the network is searched.
Here you will find internals of Komba2. If you aren't interested in you can jump to the next section. Komba2 limit the count of searching processes to 10. There are three diffent searchingprocesses in Komba2. All other processes waiting in queue. It starts with searching the masterbrowser of your workgroup (entry in smb.conf, look Getting Started ). The command shows the masterbrowser.
% nmblookup -M myworkgroup |
The found host will be searched for shares, known hosts in the workgroup and all known workgroups with masterbrowsers.
% smbclient -L mymasterbrowser |
If you checked options in setup scanning of Komba2 other found hosts will be searched too.
At the same time Komba2 will be search the host for ip and NetBIOS™-names.
%nmblookup host -S |
The third searching process is the ip-range searching. The function is integrated in Komba2 and looks for hosts on every ip in the range. Nearly the command :
% nmblookup "*" -U ip |
Depending on the limit of maximum 10 processes at the same time Komba2 will need 1 min. or more for searching the complete network.
You can mount a share to default path wich you can configure in setting up the mountpath and mount to a specified path. Use Mount to mount the share to the default path. Komba2 will create in the configured path a directory named like the host and in the host hostdirectory it will create a directory named like the share. Komba2 will mount the share in this path.
If you use mount on you can set the mountpath by yourself. Komba2 will mount the share in the given path. Please note you need write permission on the path.
After mounting the share Komba2 will open a konqueror with the mounted path if you set it up .
If you can't use a mounted share (mostly the directory is not available) and Komba2 can't unmount it you can try following as root
% umount mountpath |
It depends on Samba.
Komba2 can send messages to other hosts. It use the Message Service, so you can also sending messages to names other than the hostname. Some restrictions are to note.Windows 98™ hosts need an utility to show the messages (WinPopup), in Windows NT™ and Windows 2000™ it is integrated. Samba-hosts need an utility (like KPopup), too.
Hosts can have more than one messagename. In a NT network you can send a message to a user and on all hosts where the user is logged the message will be shown.
If you send a message to a workgroup or the complete network Komba2 will send the message to the hostnames.
Every workgroup, host and share can have a password in komba2. If you set a password to a workgroup all hosts which have no set password will use the workgrouppassword. A share does nearly the same. If it has no set password the one from the host is taken. If the host have no set password it use the workgrouppassword.
If you have a share that has no password and the host or workgroup has one set use "guest" as username and no password.
If save is checked the password will be stored in the kombaconfigfile. Please see Configure password.
At store in you can say there the password has to be stored. So you can set a passwordquestion for a host to a workgroup.