Re: vfs daemon oddness ...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:38 +0000, michael meeks wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 	So - it seems my smb:/// code that used to work in OO.o no longer works
> - which is somewhat depressing :-) we do:
> 
> 	gnome_vfs_module_callback_push
> 		( GNOME_VFS_MODULE_CALLBACK_AUTHENTICATION,
> 		vfs_authentication_callback, l->data, NULL );
> 
> 	Anyhow - as you can see we use the "simple-authentication" string key;
> but we never get asked to authenticate via this method, instead the
> CORBA trace looks like this:

simple-authentication has been deprecated in favour of
full-authentication in order to support things like nt domains and other
more complicated features.

> p28243 : ([0x81ca578])->registerClient ([0x81a9cb0]) 
> p28243 : ([0x81ca578])->queryInterface ('IDL:GNOME/VFS/AsyncDaemon:1.0')
> =>: [0x81cab18] 
> p28243 : ([0x81cab18])->GetFileInfo ('smb://amd64/share/Talk7.sxw', 0x0,
> [0x81cace8], [0x81a9cb0])p28243 : ([0x81cace8])->ModuleCallbackInvoke
> ('fill-authentication', { tc:tk_struct, { 'smb://amd64/share/Talk7.sxw',
> 'smb', 'amd64', 'share', 0x0, '', '', '' } }, ) =>; 0 out:
> ({ tc:tk_null, null } ) 
> p28243 : ([0x81cace8])->ModuleCallbackInvoke ('full-authentication',
> { tc:tk_struct, { 0x1e, 'smb://amd64/share/Talk7.sxw', 'smb', 'amd64',
> 'share', 0x0, '', '', '', '', '' } }, ) =>; 0 out: ({ tc:tk_null,
> null } ) 
> p28243 : ([0x81cace8])->ModuleCallbackInvoke ('full-authentication',
> { tc:tk_struct, { 0x1f, 'smb://amd64/share/Talk7.sxw', 'smb', 'amd64',
> 'share', 0x0, '', '', '', '', '' } }, ) =>; 0 out: ({ tc:tk_null,
> null } ) 
>  =>: 0x10 out: ({ '', 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0, 0,
> 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, '', '' },  ) 
> 
> 	Which is particularly odd, since we get the 'full-authentication'
> callback twice: should one of those be a 'simple-authentication', or
> should that be mapped at the client end ? or is it just a hopeless case
> with simple-auth for smb ? :-)

I don't understand why its called twice. I would understand
"fill-authentication" being called first (for gnome-keyring support),
but not two "full" calls.

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