Re: Reading Live SMB Files

From: James Drabb (JDrabb_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 02/28/04

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:10:41 -0500

    On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:29, Christoph Wickert wrote:
    > Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb Adam Voigt um 18:18:
    > > I think it can be done out of fstab, but you would still have to put
    > > your username and password for the server in the fstab, plus this
    > > doesn't allow for multiple users on the system.
    >
    > As I said before: PAM! No need to store the passwd. in /etc/fstab and
    > also allowing multiple users.

    You can use a credentials file and point your /etc/fstab smbfs entry at
    that. Though only root will be able to mount it then, or mount it on
    startup. PAM and the /etc/fstab method are both a pain since it
    requires you to know ahead of time what servers you want to mount. We
    have hundreds of servers where I work, so that would not be a real
    option.

    One thing I did notice is that Nautilus sucks for SMB. konqueror is far
    better. I can browse an SMB share in konqueror and double-click say a
    text file and kwrite/etc can read _and_ write to it. Nautilus is pretty
    much read only for SMB shares. I like Gnome a lot more then KDE, though
    this is one issue that makes me keep trying KDE to see if I can force
    myself to like it.

    There is also the usability issue. MS Windows users are use to just
    typing \\server\share in any url box or even the run dialog and getting
    to a server. If you have rights to that share, it is transparent and
    seems as if it is just another partition on your drive. It would be
    nice to have some feature like this under Linux.

    gnome-vfs needs to have transparent SMBFS support, then any Gnome app
    could work with SMB shares with the same ease that a user would have
    under MS Windows. Does anyone know if there is any work being done on
    something like this?

    > Christoph

    Jim Drabb 

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