[KLUG Members] Strange samba problem in file manger

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am using pcq Linux 2004.  I have successfully configured samba server.
> When I try to access samba share using file manager of kde or gnome I am
> asked for password and username.That's ok. Once I entered the password and
> username I can go to share and when hit back button I am again asked for
> password. Is this normal or I need to configured something in samba or kde
> and gnome file manger?

This is normal in KDE and GNOME 2.0, 2.2, & 2.4.  GNOME 2.6 implements a
real security subsystem (called the key-ring), and works MUCH more
smoothly.  Otherwise your just talking about VFS modules (shared library
modules) that have no persistence and thus you loose everything (cache,
passwords, tokens, etc...) when they go out-of-scope.  I've heard
rumblings of freedesktop mangling the GNOME keyring to be desktop
independent (so it functions in KDE as well), much like they did with
Gstreamer (which now also provides multimedia support in KDE).  

How long before KDE is nothing but a GNOME theme?  Thats my question.