xffm will crash when browsing to a public-samba-share with SMB_USER env set

[Don Tanner]

Hello Ed,

Issue resolved.

Thanks. The problem is now fixed !

Thank you and the xfce team for all your hard work.

Peace,
Don

On Thu, 22 May 2003 15:21:26 -0500
Don Tanner <mesa at linuxtux.org> wrote:

> Thanks Ed  !
> 
> I will get the current xffm-cvs right now and recompile.
> 
> Peace
> Don
> 
> 
> On 22 May 2003 15:08:56 -0500
> edscott wilson garcia <edscott at imp.mx> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Don,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 12:53, Don Tanner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > xffm will crash if you have a samba share like this : (which is a very sane and common public share entry)
> > 
> > It wasn't exactly a crash. It was smbclient asking for a password on
> > stdin. I've fixed xffm so that if no password is specified through the
> > mcs-plugin, then no password will be required through stdin.
> > 
> > A current problem with X is that if the application was not started in a
> > terminal, and input is required from stdin, X does not know how to
> > handle it and hangs (that's why you had to kill your X-session to get
> > out of the loop). I don't know if a bug workaround through the window
> > manager is possible, but my guess is no.
> > 
> > I've also added distinct icons for mounted/unmounted fstab elements and
> > menu elements to activate or hide top level branches, so there's more to
> > be had from current CVS.
> > 
> > saludos,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
> > > 
> > > -------snippet from smb.conf--------------------
> > > [public-ftp]
> > >         comment = top secret stealth mission
> > >         path = /home/ftp/pub
> > >         guest only = Yes
> > >         guest ok = Yes
> > > ------end snippet from smb.conf----------------
> > > 
> > > and try to browse to it with any value other than empty/null set in SMB_USER.
> > > 
> > > Here is the recreation / scenario in details:
> > > 
> > > 1) If I try to browse to this public share with xffm and I DO have an entry env setting (user-name) for the  "SMB_USER" env it
> > >      will freeze up my entire X session and i have to do the ctrl-alt-bksp. Only way to get un-froze.
> > > 
> > > 2) If I try to browse this same samba public share with xffm and I DO NOT have an entry 
> > >      in SMB_USER env null/empty it will browse it with no problem.
> > > 
> > > 3) xftree/xfsamba (from xfce3) does not have this problem with same scenario.
> > > 
> > > My build of xfce4 = 2003 May 22 00:30:00 CST ... did a fresh install of everything at that time
> > > including removing ALL old libraries before rebuild.
> > > 
> > > I can consistently recreate this crash.
> > > I would send more info on the crash but I am not seeing any errors an any logs to give you.
> > > 
> > > Peace
> > > Don
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