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



El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 09:06, y9toi7y02 sneakemail com escribió:

> 
> - Log on anonymous if that is possible
> - Require the user to make a shortcut or register the site somewhere if it
> allows anonymous but they need to log on.
> - Make this process obvious in windows for anonymous ftp dirs

No, this won't work for either FTP or Windows share servers.  In both
cases, whatever is visible to you is dependent on the credentials used
for login.  That's why accessing a share should prompt a box asking
whether to log in anonymously or with a username/pw combo/kerberos
ticket.  Well, having the kerberos ticket and issuing it right away
cannot be that bad though, but in the case of anon versus user/pw, you
need to provide the user with the box so he can choose.


> 
> Most users have only one or two sites that they need to log on to, I don't
> think they should have to be bothered by logon dialogs for every ftp
> server they ever use.

They should.  Gnome keyring can alleviate the need for second and third
prompts, but you cannot assume the user will only want to log in
anonymously whenever it's possible.

>  Most ftp servers do not/should not support real
> logons anyway. Then again, file managers are not really suited for ftp
> sites because you can only do one thing at a time on ftp (and because the
> directory listings are not standardized).

That's not true either.  File managers can initiate several connections
to perform several operations simultaneously.

> >
> > ...
> > > Note that you need to be really careful with sending and especially
> > > caching logins because you can trivially spoof the server names. Using
> > > broadcasts it's just a matter of who answers first, using WINS it's who
> > > registers first.
> >
> > What do you mean by caching logins? You mean caching the password?
> Actually I mean enticing the user to send their usercode/password to a
> server that could be anyone, but especially sending the combination
> automatically.
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00317.html
> Interesting.
> 
> Martijn Vernooij
> 
> ps. I am on the list, no need for CC's
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	Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
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