Hi, Implementing SMB access/browsing at "System" level rather than "Desktop" level, is imho the good approach. Fuse is probably the best way to handle this. Some weeks ago, I started coding an utility called Fusesmbtool : a frontend to configure/mount Fusesmb. It's not finished nor complete, but it works. It's available for Zenwalk here : http://download.zenwalk.org/i486/current/packages/ap/fusesmb-0.8.5-i486-1z30.tgz
Maybe an idea would be to let Thunar invoke such a configuration dialog? Maybe Thunar could become a frontend to Fusesmb configuration and mounting ? Fusesmb is the right technology to handle SMB browsing in Linux, but to be serious : it's just a good mechanism, not a tool for end users. Telling a user to use fusesmb rather than Thunar to browse SMB looks like telling him to use "cd" and "ls" instead of Thunar to browse files ! It certainly work :) Cheers JP Kresimir Spes wrote: > is there a chance that the smb protocol (windows shares) will be > implemented in thunar? I know the goal is to make a lightweight file > manager, but this is a very important feature. > a compromise would be to enable/disable smb:// at compile time. > > currently, I'm using smbmount, but I'm not too happy with it as I have > to manually mount every share I want to access. > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > Thunar-dev@xfce.org > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev