-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > > >>Le ven 24/10/2003 à 12:20, Jan Ciger a écrit : >> >>>Brad Felmey wrote: >>>| I will smile and politely pat you on the shoulder, understanding >>>| perfectly that you obviously have zero experience migrating an >>>| enterprise environment to Linux. >>> >>>Well, yes, you are right, but what I do not agree with is putting a link >>>to "smb:/" on the desktop, unless it is made more reliable. >>> >>>It does not work properly for me (I am current on Cooker) - I am seeing >>>some shares from our Windows server but not others, some directories >>>seem to be empty even though they are not and many other strange things >>>like this. >>> >>>Either use LinNeighborhood (which works fine for me) or nothing for now, >>>because a half-broken solution is worse than none. >> >>filled bug reports against lisa/gnome-vfs/kio-smb > > yes, but not to say they are bugged. The whole design idea is wrong. IMO > in doesn't make sense to abstract a filesystem at a DE level, at least not > for current systems. It would be better if lisa (or whatever) asked LUFS > or even plain (smb)mount to mount the fs. This is less work and has > probably less bugs than the current hacks. Playing an mp3 via smb:// > currently means downloading the file first before a player starts playing > it. I do not want 2 minute pauses between my music (don't even try it with > video). Mounting it makes it available for all apps and toolkits. Makes > more sense to me.
I agree. But smbmount / smbfs is the wrong place to start now, mount.cifs / cifs is the better place to start (in case you want to watch a movie > 2GB or access Win2k3 shares etc. BTW, pam_mount and kio_smb are enough for us here (mainly since we have a better solution for file sharing, a specific, automated share for temporary sharing, and well-managed shares accessible via samba and NFS for project-related files etc), so I won't have much motivation to look at this ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/nkicrJK6UGDSBKcRAkQiAJ4jex7/rGC5vAZbS+MTlb/cdClIOwCffEDx 3xRMU+QgxAZId5Hmprha5fE= =Kw0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
