Re: new smb method



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
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