Re: Fixing SMB browsing

[Danny Brow <maillist fullmotions com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the past few months at Novell, I've been working on Samba-related
> stuff for gnome-vfs and Nautilus.  Attached is a patch for gnome-vfs's
> smb-method.c which does a few things:
>
> - Turns off SMBCCTX_FLAG_NO_AUTO_ANONYMOUS_LOGON.  This is what causes
> the "I get prompted for a password for everything" bug.  I have tried to
> figure out why this flag got introduced, but it only seems to cause
> trouble --- our perform_authentication() and its series of fallbacks
> already take the proper steps to ensure that the user is only prompted
> for authentication if absolutely required.
>
> - Enables browsing for SMB printers.  When you double-click on a SMB
> printer in Nautilus, it will launch gnome-cups-add to let you configure
> the printer.
>
> - Adds a bunch of debugging code, which can be enabled by touching
> ~/.debug-gnome-vfs-smb --- if this file exists, the code will create a
> log in ~/debug-gnome-vfs-smb.log.  This is useful so that random users
> can send you a debug log without recompiling.
>
> - Hides administrative shares like IPC$ and ADMIN$, while showing
> user-created shares that end in "$".
>
> With this patch, SMB browsing works very well, including kerberized
> setups like Active Directory.  "Works very well" assumes that the
> network is configured for browsing --- it turns out that many networks
> with a mixture of Windows and Unix boxes in various subnets are just not
> properly set up for that.
>
> The patch is large, but that is due to the code that produces debug
> output.  The meat is pretty small.  I'm surprised that the only changed
> really needed to get browsing to work well is the flag I mentioned
> above.
>
> OK to commit? :)
>
>   
Works very nice, I'll be putting this on a few more systems and let you 
know how it works. Did you fix it so that it trys' the current username 
and password for shares before prompting? I like it like that but some 
shares I need a different user name for writing rights. Any way around this?

Thanks,
Dan.