Announce: Gnomba 0.4.1

[gandalf pobox com]

Well, after another long delay, we are happy to finally release Gnomba
0.4.1.  This release has some pretty big changes, though typically, it
only has about 50% of what I had hoped.

What we did change:
There is no longer a machine only view or separate share window, now the
shares are listed in the tree-view under the machine name.  It is now
possible to mount shares with passwords and specify the mount point, as
well as browse with gmc (there are some issues, see below).  All of this
is accessible from the menu-bar or popup menus.

Another big addition is there is now a find function, to help those of you
with large lists of machines or shares.  Along with these changes are
numerous bug fixes, small enhancements new translations, and new icons.
Also new (though not part of the program itself) is the fact that we have
finally moved the webpage, we are now at gnomba.darkcorner.net

What we didn't change: (and will gladly accept patches for)
There are still bugs, we don't like this.  We are still wrapping smbclient
and smbmount, we don't like this either.  We still do nothing with the
printers.  We still miss some machines when scanning.  We still only scan
and don't use WINS. 

The URLs:
Homepage:  http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/
ChangeLog: http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/ChangeLog41.txt
Tarball:   http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/6.0/gnomba-0.4.1.tar.gz
6.0 RPMs:  http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/6.0/
5.2 RPMs:  http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/5.2/
Debain:    http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/deb/


As noted above, there are still some issues with mounting and gmc
browsing.  They are:

The mounting code, since it wraps smbmount, obviously only runs on systems
where smbmount works, which I believe is just Linux, though I could be
wrong.  The smbmount code requires that smbmnt be setuid root in order for
normal users to mount shares, and I have yet to figure out how to unmount
these shares as a user.  Also, if you get a username/password pair wrong
when mounting, it leaves the mount point in a funky state which requires
you to do a unmount call, even though nothing is mounted.

GMC smb browsing requires that you gmc have smbfs support. I believe that
the first version that supports smbfs is 4.5.37.  Unfortuently, afaik no
RPM comes with it turned on, this means that you will need to compile it
yourself.  I was thinking of building one with smbfs support compiled in,
so if people want this let me know.  Also if I am wrong and there is an
RPM that ships with smbfs compiled in, let me know.

Another issue with gmc browsing is that in order to connect to shares with
a password you need to set the environmental variable
USER=username%password.  Note that his must be done before you run gmc,
not our program.  Since Gnome by default runs gmc at startup, this usually
means before you run Gnome.  I have been talking a bit with Wayne Roberts
(ths smbfs guy) and hopefully this will change soon, neither of us have
had the time thus far,though I haven't checked the cvs in a few days, so
who knows. :)

Since all we do is call "gmc /#smb:machinename/sharename" If you have any
problem with smb browsing in gmc, it is probably not our fault.  Wayne has
a page up on using smbfs in gmc, if you are having any problems, you
should check it out: http://members.home.com/wroberts1/smbfs.html

Thanks
-chris