Re: Connecting to SMB Shares Fails

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:06 +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to connect to a protected SMB share using gnome-vfs-2 but
> it fails with an "Access denied" error.
> 
> The file i'm trying to access over SMB is located at
> "smb://gauravj-xp/networkfolder/file.txt" and the user/password to
> access it are 'gaurav' and 'password' respectively.
> 
> I'm attaching the code that I have written.  The error that is thrown
> at the terminal is:
> Error Access denied occurred opening location
> smb://gaurav:password gauravj-xp/networkfolder/file.txt
> 
> Any help would be really appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Gaurav

Its generally not recommended to put passwords in uris due to security
issues. I don't think the smb backend supports it. You need to implement
the password callbacks to correctly handle the login. For an example,
see the gnomevfs-cat program in later versions of gnome-vfs.

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