I'll keep that in mind...
I'm in a heterogenous environment (Linux, Unix, Solaris, OS X, Windows),
so that is the need (want) for smb/cifs to be a "1st class" citizen.
I _could_ use my OS X box to mount all the smb mounts in the company
then re-expose them as nfs... hmmm.....
Thanks for the info.
-Bryan
Brian Nitz wrote:
> My mistake, the path which is dragged into the terminal is the
> gnome-vfs path which is NOT exported as a filesystem mount:
>
> smb://{hostname}/windowspath/logs/myfile.txt
>
> The fact that Nautilus's (gnome-vfs) smb/nfs/davfs... mounts are not
> exported as mount points is one of the reasons that the GNOME community
> is in the process of replacing the gnome-vfs backend with gvfs which
> will be able to export these mountpoints via FUSE:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-February/msg00062.html
>
> Bryan Boone wrote:
>> Will this be predictable? That is, can I set a softlink to it?
>> This is a feature I wasn't aware of.
>> Thanks for the info.
>> (Getting tempted to free up my 64 bit linux box for Indiana ;))
>> -B
>>
>> Brian Nitz wrote:
>>> SMB shares should be visible to the command line. Try this:
>>>
>>> Launch gnome-terminal
>>> Open your smb mount in Nautilus and navigate to a file on the smb
>>> filesystem
>>> Drag the file to the terminal
>>>
>>> This should paste the path of the file into your terminal.
>>>
>>> If it doesn't paste the actual path into the terminal that you can
>>> navigate to via the command line, you should log a bug.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan Boone wrote:
>>>> "kinda there" means I can see it with nautilus, but not from the
>>>> command line.
>>>> It would be nice to be able to create say, a softlink to it (can
>>>> I?), after the space has been mounted.
>>>> That way I can mount foreing filesystems and use them as my own.
>>>> -Bryan
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Robert Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:49 PM
>>>> To: Bryan Boone
>>>> Cc: Giacomo Tufano; Brian Nitz; [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] How good will Indiana be
>>>> for desktop computing?
>>>>
>>>> Bryan Boone wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My desktop computing requirements are a little more modest.
>>>>> I develop Java apps for my company.
>>>>> So I need Java, nfs, and smb (cifs).
>>>>>
>>>>> Java, I think is there.
>>>>> NFS is there.
>>>>> SMB is kinda there, but I'd like to mount it via fstab (or the Solaris
>>>>> equivalent)
>>>>>
>>>> By "kinda there", do you mean what you see in Nautilus aka
>>>> File Manager? Yes, that's useful but not a "real" file
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> A new CIFS client was integrated into Nevada build 84 - see
>>>> if it comes closer, but note there are still some things it
>>>> doesn't know how to do yet:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/
>>>>
>>>> Rob T
>>>>
>
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