Re: SMB error: "Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of..."

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 16:06, y9toi7y02 sneakemail com wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2004, Alexander Larsson alexl-at-redhat.com |nautilus| wrote:
> ...
> > If libsbmclient had a way to set the unix charset to override the
> > smb.conf setting we could use that.
> ...
> >
> > > Apparently libsmbclient is an abstraction over libsmb. Libsmbclient uses
> > > its own contexts (called 'ctx' in the code), libsmb uses another kind of
> > > context (called 'cli' in the code).
> > >
> > > libsmbclient could just set cli->use_kerberos = 1 and it would work.
> > > It's just that it doesn't do that.
> >
> > That sucks. This is where a samba person working with us could help a
> > lot.
> >
> I think libsmbclient needs a way to get to the cli structure. Then the
> application can set whatever it needs.

I doubt they want to expose the whole cli interface, because they are
not willing to support that as public api in a backwards compat fashion.
Thats just an old crufty internal api.

> The work on ntlm_auth that they did for squid and a few other projects
> indicates to me they are not unwilling to cooperate.

cool.

> > I really suck at these things, I wish a person that really knew samba
> > and windows could help out with the smb backend.
> Well I know quite some things about samba, smb, windows and unix but not
> enough about writing gnome-vfs modules. I have looked at it before but a
> lot of the semantics are poorly documented or not at all.

I'd lean towards not at all, or rather "undefined". The idea is to work
towards posix semantics, but clearly we can't do that for all
filesystems types (almost none actually) so we do the best we can. 

Ideally we would be able to specify a set of rigorous semantics that is
both useful, well defined, implementable on all useful backends, and
maximally powerfull while still fullfilling the other requirements.
However, its unlikely that something like that can be defined.

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