Ok, thanks. I really wasn't quite sure exactly about which you were talking about :) On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 15:08, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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 > > -- > > + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown > > + Whatever you do will be insignificant, > > | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi > > + So let's do it...? > > > > Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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