Re: Browsing Samba URIs smb://

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

> At the moment gnome-vfs doesn't authenticate (but i do think it might
> pass your username?) while browsing a machine, only when you connect to
> a share. This is so that browsing won't open up a billion authentication
> dialog.
> 
> However, some shares only appear if you authenticate, so its not always
> ideal.
> 

It does indeed pass your username. And if your happen to have a 1:1 username
correspondence on the remote system and a blank password, then you're 
authenticated.

(this limitation is very troublesome when working with an NT-based server--
in the absence of a domain controller, they seem to use something similar
to Samba's User authentication mode. You can't even get a list of shares
without the above conditions)