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    network browsing?

    hello, i'm new here
    i'm even new to linux systems (my excuses for that)
    my harddisk had several problems, and crappy windows won't install anymore, so i got knoppix from a friend of mine.
    i finally got it installed and stuff, it's quite hard to find everything, as a noob

    but what's my problem? i'm at a student house, with 11 people and as much pc's.
    and in windows it's just opening the browser and go to network enviroment, or type \\name

    i've tried and looked around a lot here, and really really don't know how to browse to those other pc's.

    is there anyone who wants to explain me how to do it?

    thanx in advance

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    Use the program called LinNeighborhood.
    I hope this helps.
    James

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    thx for the help
    but i just found an other way.
    as i know the pc names of my fellow students, i could just do smb://computername

    still one problem, i want to check a movie from one of them, but i can't open avi's in any way.
    i know there are other topics about it, and i've tried to download codecs and stuff.
    but it seems that i have to compile those things myself and stuff, and for a linux noob, it's not quite easy... i wonder if there are like exe's in linux that may install those codecs like in the windows way...
    (i sure hope i'm not insulting anyone )

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    Try find debian package, something with extension .deb
    or use synaptic or kpackage or apt-get.
    w32codecs is a collection of codecs that you can use to watch movies.
    Example:
    apt-get update
    apt-get install w32codecs


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    well it sounds like what you want is here, let us know how you get on, i havnt tried it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shah
    Try find debian package, something with extension .deb
    or use synaptic or kpackage or apt-get.
    w32codecs is a collection of codecs that you can use to watch movies.
    Example:
    apt-get update
    apt-get install w32codecs

    Shah,

    Good advice, but Dominator is not going to have the necessary repositories from a default knoppix install to grab w32codecs with apt.

    Dominator, you need to open the following file with a text editor (as root).

    /etc/apt/sources.list
    Then add this line.

    deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

    After that do:

    apt-get update
    Then:

    apt-get -t unststable install w32codecs
    Of course these are only the codecs. You'll also want to install a player. I suggest using apt to install one or more of the following: mplayer, kplayer, kaffeine. Personally I like kaffeine.

    As far as browsing Windows shares goes, apt-get install smb4k. Smb4k is quite good at browsing and mounting windows shares.

    Adam

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