[Thunar-dev] samba

[Biju Chacko]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:46:37 +0530, Matt McClinch <mattmcclinch at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Bob Snyder wrote:
>
>> Auke Kok wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Why do people think that implementing a specific way to do X (in this  
>>> case,
>>> mount a samba share or browse it, which is basically the same) should  
>>> beling in
>>> a filemanager?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Because xffm/xfsamba did it?
>>
>>
>> Bob S.
>>
>>
> If xffm did everything right, there would be no Thunar.
>
> You know, its funny.  xfsamba was the app that turned me on to xfce in
> the first place (before version 4).  Back then it was a standalone app
> that scanned the network for shares and allowed the user to mount them
> and optionally open them in a new window.  With version 4.0, it became
> part of xffm, and with version 4.4 it seems to have disappeared
> completely.  It may be time to bring it back in its original form.

Here's the code:

http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfce3/trunk/xfsamba/

if anyone wants to take a shot at reviving it. A standalone samba browser  
would be much appreciated, though I suspect using libsmb might be a better  
idea than using smbclient.

-- b


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