Re: Browsing Samba URIs smb://

[Andy Grimm <ag381597 ohio edu>]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 11:04 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:11 -0400, Andy Grimm wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:31 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand this.  Can't gnome-vfs prompt for
> > authentication once and then do the libsmbclient equivalent of
> > "smbclient -L"?  Also, since kerberos is finally getting worked into all
> > of this, can't you at least try to use kerberos auth at that point?
> 
> What do you mean by once? Once per machine you browse?

Yes, once per machine is how it would have to be.  To me, it's better
than having no browse functionality at all.  Of course, all _I_ really
want is for kerberos to work here, so I get no prompts at all.

> Doesn't kerberos get used here already?

I'm not sure.  The latest version I tried (2.8.1, I believe) behaved
strangely with kerberos.  When I tried to access a share, it popped up
an authentication dialog even though I had valid kerberos creds.  I
found that I didn't have to enter any info into the dialog (I could just
hit OK), but it was strange to me that it showed up at all.  I don't
think kerberos worked for getting a list of shares from a machine at
all, but I'll check again...

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Andy Grimm <ag381597 ohio edu>