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How can I find/browse Windows computers on the network from Linux

Jul 31st, 2005 14:56
Raphael Wimmer, Stas Kysel, cosmin tocut, http://www.samba.org/

Komba - which is part of KDE - is a graphical client for finding and 
browsing SMB shares. This application would be the best choice for 
quickly scanning the network for Windows boxes. It is based on Samba.
Samba (www.samba.org) enables Linux computers to join Windows domains, 
mount and access Windows shares and printer shares. Samba provides the 
following tools (not complete):
smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
"Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree with 
all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the shares on 
the servers.
smbclient is a client for SMB/CIFS servers.Operations include things 
like getting files from the server to the local machine, putting files 
from the local machine to the server, retrieving directory information 
from the server and so on.
smbmount mounts a Windows share into the Linux filesystem.
(descriptions taken partly from man pages)