Re: [kde] smb://


On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:23 +0100, Graham wrote:
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On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:56:33 +0200
Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyone know if there are plans for kio_smb to accept MS version of
smb:// URIs.
ie "smb:\\server\share" or more accurately "\\server\share"
Im the lone linux user in our 60 odd windows domain company, everytime
someone mails me a link to a share on a server I have to copy-paste
and replace all \\ with //.
smbmount does accept \\ or //

As has been pointed out, those are NOT urls because they don't follow
the RFC for urls which is the way standards are set.

I understand your difficulty, but it arises from a misunderstanding
by your fellow Windows users. Just because an OS is used by more people
than anything else does NOT necessarily mean it follows standards that
have been agreed. Microsoft obviously wants to go its own way
irrespective of the standards that have been agreed. It would be much
more helpful in they abided by standards and then the internet would
not be a place of mixed standards.


How much of a "standard" is CIFS? or MSWordDOC/OOXML or WMV/WMA or NTFS
etc etc. Just complaining about MS not being standard based did not get
these working under Linux.
I agree - complain to anyone who will listen about evil MS and their
practises, but also try and get it to work in Linux.
As I said - smbmount is getting this by allowing \\ as well as //.





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