The reason for this app is that Pnethood, while it has served us well for many years is often failing to discover network shares in the latest Puppies even though the shares exist. This is because it's major dependency nbtscan is getting old and largely unmaintained.
This is designed for home use. For a more heavy-duty solution use YASSM by rcrsn51. The next Slacko will be shipping with both in place of Pnethood.
This is tested working with XP, Windows 7, Mac and Puppy-samba shares. It is tested with the latest Slacko-beta, Precise Puppy and latest Wary/Racy Beta.
Once you install the pet there is a directory made in /root/network with the Network icon inside. Navigate to that and just click the Network icon to begin. There is no menu entry.
If you forget to unmount shares at shutdown then there is a service script to take care of that.
Warning: No warranty. There is the possibility that if you do something silly like deleting a mounted share then there will be data loss on the share. If you have problems just reboot.
Dependencies:
- rox-filer
mpscan (should be already there in most pups)
mount.cifs (should be already there in most pups)
smbclient (should be already there in most pups)
base64 (only in latest pups - includes slacko-533, wary/racy-5.3,precise-5.4)
Code: Select all
which base64
update to 0.8 fixed issues with nounix and sec=ntlm thanks to shinobar and gcmartin
update to 0.7 fixed verbosity at boot, now echoes "ok", fixed guest password. (base64 error)
update to 0.6, improved unmounting at shutdown thanks to jamesbond