On 12/11/06, yancm@sdf.lonestar.org <yancm@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> The recent discussion for lightweight window managers was very timely
> as I have been resurrecting an old P2-266 laptop w/196M ram as a
> NetBSD 4_Stable box for general use and testing.
>
> This is my first forray into GUI/X land, but I have been using NetBSD
> on my home network as a server for 7-8 years.
>
> I need a GUI network file browser that can cooperate with several
> WinXP boxes. I know that samba does the heavy lifting, but what
> about a GUI? I searched the mail lists and guides, but did not
> find anything promising. I also looked on samba.org and looked
> for the GUIs they mentioned in pkgsrc, but came up empty...
>
> So far, I have:
>
> - Wireless networking (thanks to all the help I received from
>   several folks and the re-fork of the 4_Stable branch that is now
>   working!)
>
> - The IceWM (I like that it looks a bit like w95 - my non-techie
>   wife may not be afraid to use it.)
>
> - Firefox 2 (with dependencies, this took a mere 20 hours to build
>   natively!)
>
> - xvnc viewer (we have a headless windows box that serves audio to our
>   low power FM transmitter that can be heard throughout the house...)
>
> - mplayer (haven't tested it yet, only took about 10 hours to build...)
>
> Now I just need a network file browser GUI. What do folks use?
> I noticed a gtksamba stub in pkgsrc/net (or /x11?) without
> a makefile...is it a wip? Just abandoned or ?
>
> Thanks,
> gene


This is pretty untested, but you might want to consider using xfce
instead of icewm.  It will be easier for you to use/configure (i.e. it
has a gui configurator), is lightweight, and comes with xffm, which
include samba support.