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Network won't browse any shares

PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:50 am
by ptyerman
I'm having problems getting my network to recognise anything at all. It connects to the internet fine but I cannot browse any network shares or even the network neighbourhood. It just keeps asking for a name and password just to browse the network, WTF?
I must admit, I don't normally use KDE since the 3.5 series so I may be missing something.
Any ideas or tips before I just install Makulu or something?

Re: Network won't browse any shares

PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:41 pm
by ptyerman
No matter, have got rid of it, KDE still sux big time. Using 4.2 with the Mate DE now, problem solved. It totally eludes me why there isn't a XFCE option though, it seems to be the DE of choice these days, and a lot better than Mate or (/spit)KDE(/end spit)! :D

Re: Network won't browse any shares

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:49 am
by Xanayoshi
Did you give it permissions?

Re: Network won't browse any shares

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:38 am
by ptyerman
It asked for a user and password but would not accept anything. I entered every user and pass I have ever used on any computer hooked up to my network over a two day period , but it still did nothing.
Gave up in the end and installed 4.2 which is fine.
I have never known in 40 years of computing any OS that wants credentials just to connect to a network and browse what's connected, KDE is absolutely ludicrous these days.

Re: Network won't browse any shares

PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:26 am
by ptyerman
That's the first user and pass I tried followed by many more, nothing worked. I was scratching my head for two days with this and came up blank, ended up wiping the drive and installing 4.2.
Perhaps I was a little harsh over KDE, but I do not like it since the transition to 4.0 but thought I would give it a try as it is a few years since I ran it last. Much prefer XFCE these days but Mate will do for now. :)