Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

zhangyun wrote:

>I just want to make Nautilus more easy to use, just as Windows Explorer, because you know,
>not many people knows how to use a SMB url to find the network neighbourhood.
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>I want to complete the following things:
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>1.Search the whole net and find the domains and computers in the network when nautilus startup
>2.make the user can select computer just as they are in Windows, that is, click domain, click computer, click share directory, just as they do for usual files
>3.if the network neighbourhood need a password, popup a dialog to type the password
>4.find a better way than Windows to deal with file share in network
>
>In gereral, I want to make the function as easy to use as for Windows Explorer, not just the SMB url typed in nautilus.
>
>For other kind of net, I am not familiar with them, and can leave to others.
>
>How do you think about my idea?
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bruce Robert Pocock" <brpocock 10east com>
>To: "zhangyun" <zhangyun ch2000 com cn>
>Cc: <nautilus-list gnome org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:10 PM
>Subject: Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus
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>>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 07:34, zhangyun wrote:
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>>>Hi, everyone!
>>>
>>>I would like to add Network Neighbourhood to nautilus just as Windows
>>>Explorer does, I would like to know is there any plan for nautilus to
>>>complete this? How can I contribute to this function? Who can give me
>>>some help?
>>>
>>>Thanks Very Much!
>>>      
>>>
>>The gnome-vfs-extras package does this for SMB (Windows for Workgroups)
>>shares now. Just install the module and type "smb:" in the Location bar.
>>
>>You could probably start from there if you plan to add other kinds of
>>browsing, e.g. NBP, NetWare, SLP, DNS WKS, ... the UI code would be very
>>similar, just the networking back-end would have to change.
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I love this idea. Dont think that I'll be able to code much for it, but
I sure would like to use it (and bug test).

Extra ideas:
When you find a shared directory after browsing the network, it would be
good to have an option to mount it somewhere and remember that setting,
so next time I log on the network it will be already mounted.

Damien