Re: Browsing Samba URIs smb://

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:11 -0400, Andy Grimm wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:31 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:42 +0530, Annamalai Gurusami wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I am on Slackware 10.0.  I am trying to access Windows XP and 2000
> > > machines using the URLs of the form smb://machine.  This is giving me
> > > access denied error.  From where does nautilus take the username and
> > > password for connecting to the Windows machines?
> > > 
> > > I am able to use smbclient directly and access the service that I
> > > want, but am not able to do so through nautilus.  
> > > 
> > > Any help much appreciated.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't quite understand this.  Can't gnome-vfs prompt for
> authentication once and then do the libsmbclient equivalent of
> "smbclient -L"?  Also, since kerberos is finally getting worked into all
> of this, can't you at least try to use kerberos auth at that point?

What do you mean by once? Once per machine you browse?

Doesn't kerberos get used here already?

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