[Thunar-dev] samba

[Jean-Philippe Guillemin]

Hi,

Implementing SMB access/browsing at "System" level rather than "Desktop" 
level, is imho the good approach. Fuse is probably the best way to 
handle this. Some weeks ago, I started coding an utility called 
Fusesmbtool : a frontend to configure/mount Fusesmb. It's not finished 
nor complete, but it works. It's available for Zenwalk here : 
http://download.zenwalk.org/i486/current/packages/ap/fusesmb-0.8.5-i486-1z30.tgz

Maybe an idea would be to let Thunar invoke such a configuration dialog? 
Maybe Thunar could become a frontend to Fusesmb configuration and mounting ?

Fusesmb is the right technology to handle SMB browsing in Linux, but to 
be serious : it's just a good mechanism, not a tool for end users.

Telling a user to use fusesmb rather than Thunar to browse SMB looks 
like telling him to use "cd" and "ls" instead of Thunar to browse files 
! It certainly work :)

Cheers

JP


Kresimir Spes wrote:
> is there a chance that the smb protocol (windows shares) will be 
> implemented in thunar? I know the goal is to make a lightweight file 
> manager, but this is a very important feature.
> a compromise would be to enable/disable smb:// at compile time.
>
> currently, I'm using smbmount, but I'm not too happy with it as I have 
> to manually mount every share I want to access.
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