Re: smbclient mount with MC?

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Wiseman wrote:

> The problem Felix has is he's using a bundled binary version of MC
> which comes with SuSE 10.0. For some illogical reason, it's not
> compiled with Samba support. If he compiles it from source, he'll lose
> SuSE's nice UTF-8 patch and it'll become unusable, as SuSE's locale
> (on the other hand, rather fortunately) uses UTF-8 encoding.

Please, calm down. I suggested to Felix to build MC from the Suse
source RPM (SRPM) for MC. I haven't verified, but I am pretty
confident that the SRPM includes all patches that Suse uses to
build the binary RPM package.

> On 9/22/06, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > > On 06/09/21 15:43 (GMT-0400) Pavel Tsekov apparently typed:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
> > >
> > >>> On http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Samba I see that Konq can do
> > >>> 'smb://server/sharename' to use smbclient to access lanman shares. Mc
> > >>> doesn't have an equivalent that I have found so far on
> > >>> http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/FAQ or elsewhere. Is there one?
> > >
> > >> MC can do this. Just configure it using the "--with-samba" option.
> > >
> > > I use the mc that comes bundled with the OS, in this case, SUSE 10.0,
> > > and mc 4.6.1-5. It doesn't have it. :-(
> >
> > "--with-samba" is an option to the "configure" script which is run as
> > part of the build process. This option enables samba support in the
> > resulting binary.
> >
> > To verify whether the Suse MC package supports samba, invoke samba like
> > this:
> >    mc -V
> >
> > Then look at the output. There should be a line "Virtual File System:" -
> > if it contains smbfs then your MC has samba support built in. If it
> > doesn't, you can get the source RPM package and change the .spec file
> > to include the --with-samba configure option and then rebuild the MC
> > package.
> >
> > > Is this direct support?, Or, does it depend on the kernel supporting
> > > smbfs? The latest kernels have no smbfs. Cifs is supposed to replace it,
> > > but cifs is broken for old OS/2 and windoz Lanman file sharing.
> >
> > Yes, it is direct support. It doesn't depend on the kernel or external
> > libraries.
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