Re: File sharing with Nautilus

[Darryl Rees <a4atuuj02 sneakemail com>]

This being an integration issue, would it be raising this on the samba 
mailing list and possibly xdg? I am sure there are some samba people who 
would love to contribute...

Parsing config files is yucky. Which smb.conf is actually being used, 
and is it readable by the user? Do different versions of samba have 
different formats (eg. upcoming v3.0 - I don't know)? Would it be better 
to build something into samba - then you could also do things like show 
if a share is mounted anywhere.

Maybe it would even be possible to generalize a simple protocol that 
could be used for webDAV or nfs, etc as well?


Regards,
Long

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:04, Superfrog wrote:
>  
>
> > What's the status of being able to share directories directly from
> > Nautilus ?
> >
> > The ideal is similar to windoze, kde and Mac os X. Right click on a
> > directory -> share as -> dialog.
> >
> > Looking at the way other do, it would be very interesting that one
> > single dialog allows to choose :
> >
> > 	- Folder name to share
> > 	- Display
> > 	- Access level (Read / Write)
> > 	- Protocol (smb / http / ftp / nfs)
> >
> > The ideal of different protocol is a great advantage. I've seen people
> > using kde working with read only HTTP shares in our company. Any others
> > can connect to the shared computers with only a web browser ! That very
> > handy.
> >
> > For smb, it obvious the benefits it provides... but destop users MUST be
> > able to share folders without going to command line editing... and
> > Nautilus is the place to do that !
> >
> > Looking at tools like redhat-config-samba is very interesting : it only
> > update the /etc/samba file with a very simple addition. The same can be
> > done for /etc/httpd.conf. Same goes to KDE.
> >
> > Any status and ideals / feasibility / comments of such feature ?
> >    
>
> I have been giving this a lot of though in the context of the red hat
> distribution (being a developer of said project), and my current thoughs
> about this is:
>
> It's quite hard to do this in general. So much depends on the exact
> setup of the distribution in use. However, if you control the
> distribution (or can manually tweak stuff to fit your personal install)
> it might be possible. 
>
> I'd like to integrate into Nautilus some minimal code to parse the samba
> config files. This means we can show "shared" emblems for directories
> that are shared. Then external code can use the context menu plugin
> system to add a "share this folder" operation. The hard part is writing
> the script to safely add shares to the samba configuration, in a way
> that will not break if the smb.conf file has been manually edited
> before, and in a way that isn't a huge security hole.
>
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