[SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've a need to provide users with a GUI interface to smbclient. I've found the samba.org/samba/GUI/ page with quite a lot of gui tools on it however some appear to be broken links and other promise a bit but then don't get me want I need. Perhaps someone out there can recommend a

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I've a need to provide users with a GUI interface to smbclient. I've found the samba.org/samba/GUI/ page with quite a lot of gui tools on it however some appear to be broken links and other promise a bit but then don't get me want I need. Perhaps someone out

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Rundle
Dean Hamstead wrote: i would recommend to you... xsmbclient Did you mean xsmbrowser? I couldn't find an xsmbclient. P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Rundle
Phil Scarratt wrote: I know nautilus allows this sort of thing, Not sure what underlying distro you're using with LTSP, but if it's a gnome distro then this _may_ be of use. Thanks Phil, but... When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm so disappointed with it. I just find it unusable and the end users don't like it either. What my users want is a simple tool to browse their local disk, and those of other PC's

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does anyone know of one that can transfer files without actually mounting the share?

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does anyone know of one that can transfer files without

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Peter Rundle When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm so disappointed with it. I just find it unusable and the end users don't like it either. Would love to get more in-depth feedback from you about this at some stage. - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Phil Scarratt Ahhh yesI've found opening files by double-click doesn't work in that scenario with nautilus either. Usually got to copy the files locally, then open, edit, save and recopy them back - a real fiddle especially if you have to do it often. It depends on the

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt Ahhh yesI've found opening files by double-click doesn't work in that scenario with nautilus either. Usually got to copy the files locally, then open, edit, save and recopy them back - a real fiddle especially if you have to do it often. It

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:59, Phil Scarratt wrote: Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

2005-08-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt So you're saying that a file say somedoc.sxw on a samba share, if I browse to it using nautilus and double-click to open, it should open in OOo instead of spit the dummy (I can't remember the error)? Or is this something that would work with a later