On Tuesday 20 January 2009 14:02:39 David Hagood wrote: > >From previous comments by Nokia, the reason that SMB support is being > > dropped is that Gnome VFS support is being dropped, and that was how SMB > was being supported in the previous versions.
Hi,
so simply gio will not be ported?
>
> OK, I can understand that: I always felt that userspace was the wrong
> place to manage file systems anyway.
I don't think so. I want to access files on a samba share as a user. Mounting
needs superuser permissions.
>
> Use case 1: Home user with windows network.
> User wants to view a media file served from a Windows PC sharing a
> folder via CIFS (Microsoft networking) as \\PC\MEDIA.
> User opens the Media Player on the Device.
> User opens the File Selector.
> File Selector lets all Modules know a file system enumeration is in
> progress.
> CIFS Module enumerates all available CIFS servers (in this case, the
> Windows PC), and adds them to the File Selector
The CIFS kernel module cannot send netbios broadcasts and cannot enumerate
over smb shares of a host. You need e.g. smbclient to do that or some tool
using libsmbclient.
libsmbclient is the way. And to make use of it you need something like a vfs
(gio, kio) in the filemanager or you have to write your own.
Cheers,
-- andreas
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