Re: Fixing SMB browsing

[Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:31 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:13 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> > The problem here is where would you browse for printers?  From
> > gnome-cups-manager?  IF so, how would you browse it?  You can't rely on
> > gnome-vfs so I'd think you would have to duplicate smb browsing for
> > printers, right?
> 
> You'd browse for smb printers at the same place you browse for other
> types of network printers, in the printer admin dialogs. Of course, we
> don't have a good story on printing at all at the moment, so this sort
> of sucks. However, I'm at least working on gtk+ printing now, so
> hopefully we'll get a nice solution for this eventually.
> 
> RE re-implementing smb browsing. Yeah, you'd have to do that, but its
> much much easier to use libsmb to do this if you just want to browse for
> printers instead of trying to create a virtual filesystem for it.
> 
> > > > - Hides administrative shares like IPC$ and ADMIN$, while showing
> > > > user-created shares that end in "$".
> > > 
> > > Is this really common?
> > 
> > It could happen on large corporate networks like mine it depends on how
> > it's set up.  If they have examples of this then perhaps it's worth
> > looking at it?
> 
> Sure, if it happens to one person in the world we should support it (as
> its easy to do). I'm just wondering if it actually happens.

It happens any time you have at least one domain.  Quite common in this
side of the world.

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Germán Poó-Caamaño
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