FC2 wish: samba browser

david paeme david.paeme at belbone.net
Mon Jan 19 08:33:45 UTC 2004


couldn't it be possible for gnome-vfs has some kind of 'mount' option in
the context menu? a bit like in windows, where you can browse the
network for smb/cifs servers, and then can decide if you want to assign
a drive letter to a certain share...

a right-click mount could pop-up the rootpassword dialog (or maybe
user-mount) the thing...


could be interesting for a lot of home users...


d.


that way, it kinda isn't necessary for the vfs to mount itself, 

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)
> > 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> > So, can LinNeighborhood be included in Fedora Core?
> 
> I would think so.
> 
> Regards/Casper
> 





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