Re: new smb method

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 16:55, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> Hello Bastien,
> 
> I've tried this packages and things do not really improve that much.
> I shouldn't have to have a local smb server configured on my machine
> right? I ask this because the text below seems to indicate such a thing
> which would be weird... but I don't know much about windows shares
> anyway.

I said SMB configuration, not Samba configuration. Most of the time you
will want at least nmbd running on your machine anyway, to be able to
use its NetBios caching features (faster enumeration of the servers).
(NetBios is a crappy protocol...)

That page explains the election/Master Browser process:
http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q102/8/78.asp

If a machine in the network is playing up, you will get this sort of
error messages.

> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 14:24, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 15:09, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > Seems to work OK here, with a few caveats:
> > > 
> > > smb:/// (ie network servers) says "Could not display all of smb://" or
> > > something like that. Previously it said something about being unable to
> > > contact the SMB Master Browser.
> > 
> > That means that your SMB configuration is a bit horked somewhere. I have
> > the same problems on my home network, work's network works fine though.
> > I wouldn't be able to say what's causing it.
> > 
> > Browsing to something like smb://servername/ should work though.
> > 
> > > When browsing into shares etc I am repeatedly asked for my
> > > username/password over and over. This has always been a problem with me
> > > and Samba though, not sure if it's this code to blame.
> > 
> > The new method doesn't do any caching. This should be fixed at some
> > point with the gnome-vfs daemon. Will have to wait a bit more still.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > PS: I updated the packages on
> > http://people.redhat.com/bnocera/gnome-vfs-extras-smbclient/
> > There were a couple of last minute bugs fixed
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