Browsing windows networks on konqeror

[Patrick Barnes]

Shashi Kanth Boddula wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have one project where the customer is migrating from Windows XP to
> Linux . The main requirement for them is to access network shares as
> they are accessing network shares in XP . In XP , a domain user  can
> browse the network  and he can go into any computer which is part of
> the domain . The user no needs to provide user name and password to
> access network shares in XP ( provided by appropriate  permissions ) .
> So, the customer is expecting same thing from Linux.
>
> In KDE , if i am browsing the windows network by using konqeror , you
> can see all the domains in the network and machines which are part of
> these domain . But , when i am trying access to one machine ,
> username-password dialog box appears . After providing username &
> password credentials , a user can go inside that machine and he can
> access the shares which are in that machine . If you try to access
> same machine second time , you won't  get username-password dialog box
> . Konqeror has capabilities to cache the password , but this is not
> permenent for windows networks .  Kwallet also doesn't helping me to
> solve this issue.
>
>
> I joined Linux to their domain , but still the problem exists . Please
> any body can tell me how we can solve the problem . Is kwallet solve
> this kind problems or is there is any way to solve this problem .
> Actually , this is the common requirement for all customers who are
> migrating from Windows to Linux .
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Shashi kanth


Your bug is a feature.  Cached passwords that affect a login permanently
and allow access across an entire domain are very insecure.  Quote
security reasons and they might just say "okay".

-Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com


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