Re: [Nautilus-list] SMB: support

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 16 Feb 2002, Dick Knol wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 07:26, Steve Fox wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 16:58, David Moles wrote:
>     > Hey, is there a way to get Nautilus to do that for SMB, too? I
>     > hate having to have 
>     > 
>     > smb://[username]:[plain-text password for everyone looking over your
>     > shoulder to see] server/....
>     
>     I could have sworn that about the time gnome-vfs-1.0.3 came out, people
>     said that GUI password prompting code was in CVS.
>     
>     What happened to that?
> 
> It's there. It works. Although not very well with the smb: method.
> 
> Alex has put some code into CVS that uses the dialog, but it keeps
> asking for username and password. I looked into it and managed to get it
> work better. The problem is that at least nautilus looks into the shares
> when you just selected a host. This way, when selecting a host, it will
> prompt for username/password everytime it finds a share. It would be
> better if it just gave a list of shares and didn't try to look into
> them. 

This is really a nautilus vs gnome-vfs issue. I wold like there to be a 
way for the vfs module to flag to nautilus that it should not try to 
recurse into all subdirectories for this directory.

> I know the smb: gnomevfs method uses a samba library, that's why it
> isn;t in the regualr gnome-vfs, but wouldn't it be better to just use
> calls to smbclient (like konqueror does)? That way, you don't link to
> GPL'ed software and thus such a method can exist in the regular
> gnome-vfs

It would probably be some nasty code and somewhat slow. I don't think it's 
worth it.

/ Alex