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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kio_smb patch and questions
From:       Frank Schwanz <schwanz () fh-brandenburg ! de>
Date:       2001-11-29 23:04:33
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Am Freitag, 30. November 2001 00:20 schrieb aleXXX:
> On Thu 29 Nov 01 22:27, Wynn Wilkes wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:05 pm, aleXXX wrote:
> > > I really think the smb ioslave should use the same notation as *every*
> > > other ioslave: protocol://host/path
> >
> > I'd also like to see the two smb ioslaves behave the same way.  But there
> > is some nice code in libsmbclient to detect all the workgroups- it's cool
> > to type in smb:// and see all the available workgroups on your network. 
> > It does give you more power to be able to switch workgroups without
> > having to reconfigure the ioslave through kcontrol.
> >
> > > smb:/workgroup/host should be redirected to smb://host I think.
> > >  smb:/ should be redirected to the default workgroup.  I never
> > > understood why under windows there are the hosts in the top level and
> > > once again one or two level deeper.
> >
> > I think the redirection should be taken out so the smb ioslave can work
> > in the tree views.  But, I'm ok if your way is done to keep backward's
> > compatibility with the smbro ioslave.
> >
> > Wynn
>
> Well, it is not only compatibilty with the current smbro ioslave, but also
> compatibilty with the http, ftp, fish and *any* other ioslave.
>
> > I think we should present the user with a smb:/<workgroup>/<host> url
> > scheme  and then translate it if necessary for the libsmbclient.  I
> > haven't looked at  the latest releases in detail though, so I'm not
> > exactly sure how it is  working.
>
> smb:/workgroup/host is ok I'd say, but smb://host should definitely work.
> Isn't there even a RFC that the thing in URLs after the "//" is the host ?
smb://workgroup/host as an additional. 
smb://host should work too, right.
>
> And after all, it's only some url handling, this can't be a big problem.
> smb:// should be invalid I think.
How do you want implement browsing ? smb:/ is ok I think smb:// not.
>
> Bye
> Alex
>
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