Re: Fixing SMB browsing

[Nate Nielsen <nielsen-list memberwebs com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I just glanced over your mail, and I saw this. I'm not sure this is a
> reasonable goal at all. A very common situation is that you have a share
> that allows anonymous read-only access, but if you actually log in
> correctly you can write too. With the strategy you describe above you
> would never get prompted for a username in this case, and thus you would
> never be able to log in to get write access to the share.
> 
> Also, things get complicated with browsing. For instance, I think its
> possible for a non-anonymous share enumeration to return more results
> than an anonymous one. This is common with e.g. homedirs on smb, but
> could also happen if you want to hide shares from guest users. In this
> case if we always fall back to anonymous enumeration if possible we
> would never show such shares.

We support this by putting the user name in the URI, that is: via the
'Connect to Server' box.

Cheers,
Nate