Re: Unable to browse SMB shares

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:26 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:52 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > This is really cool. I think someone who knows Samba and can do whatever
> > changes are required in libsmb can make the smb backend much more solid.
> 
> Do you have any idea of what may be causing the problems?  Is it
> gnome-vfs's fault, or libsmb's?

I'm not even exactly sure what the problems are, except from "it feels
flaky".

> [People seldom complain, if at all, of libsmb inside kioslave - maybe we
> are doing something wrong... I need to take a look at kio as well.]

gnome-vfs is threaded and in-memory (although in the vfs daemon these
days). kioslaves fork a new process for each request. This helps with
stability I guess.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
He's an all-American Amish paranormal investigator trapped in a world he never 
made. She's a wealthy wisecracking traffic cop from the wrong side of the 
tracks. They fight crime!