On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Scott D. Webster wrote:
> Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> >
> > I have to find a medium-sized project (that is, half time work for a
> > couple of months) to do in University. I want to do something that I
> > can benefit from personally, and so I thought about an automounter for
> > Windows shares. (I live in a dorm with lots of Windows machines
> > sharing things through SMB).
>
> Have a look at Gnomba (http://gnomba.darkcorner.net/). It's a sort of
> GUI version of what you're talking about.
There have been hacks to do SMB browsing under Linux for a while
(TkSMB was the first I saw), but they are just that: hacks, not the
Right Way(TM) to do things. We shouldn't need a special GUI program
to see information that can best be used (and is used on Windows) as a
directory tree. How do you do a "find -name ..." into a GUI?
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Roy Stogner
