FC2 wish: samba browser

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 02:30, Casper Pedersen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > advantage that the files are accessible by any application (vs. smb://
> > in gnome-vfs)
> 
> You're right gnome-vfs can be a bit of a pain, as it does not support
> mounting.
> > 
> > Nautilus and Konqueror have all kinds of bugs with smb:// which make
> > them unusable (like requiring password every time, or displaying 'The
> > action associated with "share" is invalid.' when clicking on a linux
> > server share, which works in Windows, and more)
> > 
Lets rather fix them ;)

> The reason why Nautilus requires username/password everytime you access
> a samba share is that you have different uid's on you server and
> desktop. 
The other reason is that gnome-vfs doesn't cache credentials and similar.
It's beeing discussed how to do that.
> I spend some time on this a couple of months (slightly less hair now),
> and it seams that gnome-vfs-extras (which include the smb method), does
> not setup a correct session (which is required), and after sometime I
> found that if I have the same uid (helped by using ldap) for my user(s)
> on all my PC's the problem disappeared.
> 
> I haven't gotten around to write a bug against gnome-vfs-extras, but I
> think someone should.
There are a few bugreports already on this issue. 

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Nils Olav Selåsdal
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