Re: Problems with smb:///

["Ionut Cotoi" <cotty cotty iren ro>]

On Fri, October 15, 2004 10:52 am, Alexander Larsson said:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:13 +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote:
>> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:06 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hello,
>> >>
>> >>I tried sending this message to both the samba list and the general
>> >>fedora
>> >>list but got no response from either (other than 1 person on the
>> fedora
>> >>list
>> >>saying he had the same problem) so I am trying here.
>> >>
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>I'n using the nautilus file browser in a GNOME desktop environment on
>> a
>> >>FC2
>> >>system.
>> >>
>> >>If I enter smb:/// in the location bar in nautilus I can see the
>> >>network but
>> >>whenever I try to look at the shares on a computer I get a message
>> >>saying that
>> >>I do not have permissions to view the contents.
>> >
>> >
>> > Don't you get a dialog where you get to enter username and password?
>> >
>> btw.
>> what is the 'official' status of nautilus (gnome-vfs?) samba support?
>>
>> works fine?
>>
>> i'm asking because honestly it never worked correctly for me. from time
>> to time thru gnome-2.2-gnome-2.8 i try it, have problems with it and
>> then go back to smbmount/smbumount.
>> so if the 'official' opinion is that it is usable (or it should be
>> usable),
>> i'll start to file bugreports....
>
> The 'official' opinion is that it basically works for me. I don't know
> smb very well, nor do i have a compliated network with lots of smb
> services set up, so i can't test it a lot. Whats needed is not mainly
> bugreports, but people actually looking at the code trying to figure out
> where it goes wrong for them.
>
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Smb:// in nautilus works fine for me for instance, both at work where I'm
running on a pretty big network with about 100 computers distributed
across different workgroups, and at home. For the record I'm running
nautilus 2.8.0 from the Dropline GNOME on top of Slackware Linux 9.1 with
Samba 3.0.

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Ionut Cotoi
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