William Case wrote: > > I write this last response to this thread as a defence of my actions and > as a warning to others. > > On the Places menu it says 'Network' and the tool tip says "Browse > bookmarked and local network options". When I click on it, it gives me > neither my bookmarked sftp remote machines nor my local network, but > instead shows me a network I do not have. Nowhere can I find a > reference that this icon is for existing or potentially new Microsoft > Networks or even samba. I genuinely expected it to show me my existing > Linux LAN with perhaps some properties of that network such as addresses > or aliases of the connected remote machines and another means of > connecting to a remote machine similar to the 'Connect to Server' > launcher just below it. > > Since I had been working (albeit just started) to set up vnc I thought > perhaps there was an error. Before I started screwing around, 6 days > ago I posted to this list asking/saying "Can't get rid of WindowsXP > network on Fedora !?!" and received no response. So I went ahead seeing > what I could do about it. > > I am quite willing to leave it alone, if that is your advice. As I said > it just started out being a minor irritant. Now I have to figure out > how to get /var/lib/samba back. I suppose I should remove all remnants > of samba then re-install them if I can. > > The "Windows Network" icon is what it is. The stub entry to all networks based on the MS Windows NETBIOS Name Service. But, in reading what you say above I must say I would remain confused. To me, when you say "Can't get rid of WindowsXP network on Fedora" I think you are saying.... I start nautilus, go to Places-->Network-->Windows Network" and I see a Windows XP workgroup/domain that used to exist but no longer does. FWIW, I try my best *not* to give advice. :-) All I would say is....if you want to get rid of that stub entry then remove the gvfs-smb package. The downside to doing this is months/years from now you may put a (guest's) windows box on the network and start asking on this list why you can't find the windows shares in nautilus. :-)
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