On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:31 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:13 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > > > The problem here is where would you browse for printers? From > > gnome-cups-manager? IF so, how would you browse it? You can't rely on > > gnome-vfs so I'd think you would have to duplicate smb browsing for > > printers, right? > > You'd browse for smb printers at the same place you browse for other > types of network printers, in the printer admin dialogs. Of course, we > don't have a good story on printing at all at the moment, so this sort > of sucks. However, I'm at least working on gtk+ printing now, so > hopefully we'll get a nice solution for this eventually. > > RE re-implementing smb browsing. Yeah, you'd have to do that, but its > much much easier to use libsmb to do this if you just want to browse for > printers instead of trying to create a virtual filesystem for it. > > > > > - Hides administrative shares like IPC$ and ADMIN$, while showing > > > > user-created shares that end in "$". > > > > > > Is this really common? > > > > It could happen on large corporate networks like mine it depends on how > > it's set up. If they have examples of this then perhaps it's worth > > looking at it? > > Sure, if it happens to one person in the world we should support it (as > its easy to do). I'm just wondering if it actually happens.
It happens any time you have at least one domain. Quite common in this side of the world. -- Germán Poó-Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ Concepción - Chile _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
