network browsing?

[Dominator]

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

[UnderScore]

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

[Dominator]

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 )

[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

[outanet]

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

[aay]

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