Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus

["zhangyun" <zhangyun ch2000 com cn>]

I just want to make Nautilus more easy to use, just as Windows Explorer, because you know,
not many people knows how to use a SMB url to find the network neighbourhood.

I want to complete the following things:

1.Search the whole net and find the domains and computers in the network when nautilus startup
2.make the user can select computer just as they are in Windows, that is, click domain, click computer, click share directory, just as they do for usual files
3.if the network neighbourhood need a password, popup a dialog to type the password
4.find a better way than Windows to deal with file share in network

In gereral, I want to make the function as easy to use as for Windows Explorer, not just the SMB url typed in nautilus.

For other kind of net, I am not familiar with them, and can leave to others.

How do you think about my idea?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Robert Pocock" <brpocock 10east com>
To: "zhangyun" <zhangyun ch2000 com cn>
Cc: <nautilus-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus


> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 07:34, zhangyun wrote:
> > Hi, everyone!
> > 
> > I would like to add Network Neighbourhood to nautilus just as Windows
> > Explorer does, I would like to know is there any plan for nautilus to
> > complete this? How can I contribute to this function? Who can give me
> > some help?
> > 
> > Thanks Very Much!
> 
> The gnome-vfs-extras package does this for SMB (Windows for Workgroups)
> shares now. Just install the module and type "smb:" in the Location bar.
> 
> You could probably start from there if you plan to add other kinds of
> browsing, e.g. NBP, NetWare, SLP, DNS WKS, ... the UI code would be very
> similar, just the networking back-end would have to change.