On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Teletch�a St�phane wrote: > I may be didn't get their point, but i'm quite afraid about their > problem of not being able to join to smb clients from galeon/konqueror > or even their ibm series. > > I think it's ok to be prompted for a password, but if you get no > notification, neither any indication of why it doesn't work, that's bad > !
If you either don't supply a username, or don't try and connect to a share that requires a username, you won't get prompted for a password (AFAIK). IIRC, you need to set your username in KDE Control Center->Network->Local Network Browsing (it's been such a long time since I originally set this, I will have to make a new user account to test, maybe it is correct by default), or you need to use smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share. > > I remembered having tried to share a directory between two machines, and > it didn't worked. > I share between samba machines, between windows machines, between windows and linux machines, and I don't really see the problems. We have made some improvements in the KDE side of things (lisa init script should now generate a good config on first start, kio_smb should be more reliable). > I went on the other machine and did a ftp, but if there is a better way, > i think it is better ! Linux to linux, kio_fish may be better, and it is easy to use if lisa is setup (which it should be by default from now on). There are however still some issues, and these need to be fixed upstream: Lisa generates links to server shares using the name that is displayed, so if you see 192.168.1.2 in the LAN browser, it generates a url for smb://192.168.1.2, or if you see mybox.mydomain.com, it generates a url for smb://mybox.mydomain.com, or if you see mybox, it generates a url for smb://mybox. The problem comes in in that win9x/me will only respond to requests for their Netbios name, which will ever work for the first two cases (IP/fqdn), and will only work for the 3rd case if he host part of the fqdn matches the netbios name (likely, but not guaranteed). For samba boxes and windows 2000 or later however, this is not so much of an issue. But it would be nice if it would allow browsing by workgroup/windows domain. Of course, no reviewer ever notices the winbind support ... Oh yes, if all goes well, we could have better, more transparent support for network browing when in a Windows 2000 or later domain (when using winbind). Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
