Re: Browsing Samba URIs smb://

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:42 +0530, Annamalai Gurusami wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am on Slackware 10.0.  I am trying to access Windows XP and 2000
> machines using the URLs of the form smb://machine.  This is giving me
> access denied error.  From where does nautilus take the username and
> password for connecting to the Windows machines?
> 
> I am able to use smbclient directly and access the service that I
> want, but am not able to do so through nautilus.  
> 
> Any help much appreciated.

At the moment gnome-vfs doesn't authenticate (but i do think it might
pass your username?) while browsing a machine, only when you connect to
a share. This is so that browsing won't open up a billion authentication
dialog.

However, some shares only appear if you authenticate, so its not always
ideal.

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