Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: [Nautilus-list] SMB: support

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:01, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 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.

Plus its sort of an end-run on the intentions of the Samba license.

-Seth