Hi Pavel, > There is already some support for SMB shares in MC, but it's implemented > in such "hacky" way that it's disabled by default. If I understand > correctly (sorry if I'm wrong), you are not even aware about that > implementation. Nope, I wasn't aware of that. I looked at the available FAQs and docos and found no mentioning of samba, or SMB.
> 1) Use samba library. The problem is that such thing doesn't exist (it > didn't last time checked). Contribute it to the Samba team. Make MC use > it when it's installed. > > 2) Make MC run "smbclient" and parse its output. May be not so reliable, > but no changes in other software are required (hopefully). This is how > FiSH (FIles transferred over SHell) works. Actually, I thought just from the user's point of view, not how I (or whoever else) would do it. I must admit that I'm not an expert on samba, but I use smbclient from time to time and its interface is very much like ftp's. And since ftpfs is there, and the usage is like: /#ftp:[!][user[:pass]@]machine[:port][remote-dir] I thought that we could have something like this: /#smb:[user[:pass]@]machine[remote-dir], or /#smb:[user[:pass]@]samba-share, or maybe something completely different (like FAR's network browser plugin for example). I find your proposals very interesting and if I was to choose one of them I would go for 1)... who knows, maybe I will (no commitment here though...) All the best dishlav _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
