Re: Browsing Samba URIs smb://

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:08 -0400, Andy Grimm wrote:
> 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...

Did you apply the patch in:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-July/036442.html

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