Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, tramp-smb also uses a non-shell for doing this. I never tried to > use smbclient, so I have no idea what it is like. Michael, can you > say something about where the problems were in using the Tramp code > for tramp-smb?
smbclient is very similar to ftp (even a comparable command set). It doesn't speak to an FTP server but to an SMB server like Samba, or the MS Windows built-in one. There's no way to call remote commands; smbclient cannot be used as inline method. tramp-smb invokes smbclient on the local machine. smbclient doesn't know the concept of smart gateways; it's always a face2face communication. In case of adding the smb method to multi-hop, this would need a rewrite. The smb method could have been implemented inside tramp.el. But I was interested in a proof of concept for foreign methods, so I've implemented it outside, learning the interface needs for foreign methods. > Kai Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
