[KLUG Members] Nautilus in RH 7.3 and Samba shares...revisited...

[Adam Williams]

>I just have what might be an easy question (actually I have 1 1/2
>questions...)
>I was finally able to establish samba shares throughout my
>Windows/Linux network.  However, when I sign in as root on the RH 7.3

Cool!

>machine, (I'm using the Gnome desktop as root user, BTW), I use Nautilus
>to browse my samba shares.  I can access all folders with no problem,
>but when I go to open a Word document or an .mp3 file, I get a message
>saying that the application, be it mpg123 or AbiWord "cannot open the
>file in samba shares".  At first I thought this was something I did
>again, but, decided to use Konqueror on the KDE menu, and I can open any
>files within my samba shares with no problems.  Is it just something in
>Nautilus?  A config setting of some sort?

It is GNOME-lag.  Nautilus and a few apps fully support VFS, many, 
especially non-GNOME apps like Abiword and mpg123 don't know anything 
about VFS.  So they look at the UNC and go "Huh?"  KDE's SMB VFS modules 
(built on kparts?) may just be more advanced.  But I'll wager it is 
secretly copying the file to a local temp space and openning it from 
there.
 
I believe full VFS support is a target for GNOME 2.2, but that may be just 
rumor and inuendo.  Gstreamer is also a target for full-integration which 
will enable streaming multimedia everywhere, which is going to be so cool!

>My second half question was really already answered by someone else on
>this board.  Everytime I access a windows share from Konqueror, I have
>to re-type my username and password.  As I understand it, if I enable
>encrypted passwords (since NT 4.0 requires it and that's what I'm
>running on my windows machines), it should solve the problem.  However,
>feel free to correct me if I'm wrong..I'm just a lowly beginner!

Again, this is a VFS thing.  Nautilus will do the same thing.  The SMB VFS 
module just isn't quite there yet.  The don't-prompt-me-no-more effect of 
encrypted password is when your using an NT/WinY2k/Xpee desktop (they 
don't much care for clear text passwords).  A GNOME wide XML based PSM is 
in the works,  *hopefully* more secure than the one in Windows.