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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: konqueror SMB support problems
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-09-11 9:10:05
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jelmer Feenstra wrote :
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David Faure wrote:
>
>> >I've had some contact with Brodu (writer of libsmb++) about those
>> > problems, but he hasn't got a proper internet connection at the moment,
>> > so I'm turning to this mailinglist (I hope it's the place for this
>> > email). I was wondering, who in the kde team takes care of the smb
>> > implementation used by konqueror ?
>>
>> No-one, that's the problem.
>
>Hmm, that's too bad, it would be nice to have a good working smb 
>implementation :( But unless something happens the library will not be 
>improved bfeore the kde2 release I guess ?

Yup.

>> >- Listing NT5/WIN2K systems return dir- and filelistings in 8.3 format (no
>> >long filenames)
>>
>> Interesting, it works fine with Win 95/98.
>
>Yes, I know, the problem lies in the negotiation protocol (according to 
>Brodu). Somehow NT5 thinks we are a client that doesn't support long 
>filenames. 

I see.

>I'm looking in to it, but it's been a while for me to be active 
>reading lots of code (especially weird smb protocol code :) and actually 
>understanding what's happening. But Brodu is willing to help me out, so if  I 
>somehow manage to fix some of the problems I noted, I'll let you guys know.
Cool.

>> >- Trying to enter directories that contain a "&" in its name results in a
>> > dir not found
>> >
>> >I'm sorry if this has already been reported, I've been checking bug
>> > reports and looking for a smb specific bugreport list... But didn't find
>> > the isues noted above.
>>
>> Didn't see such reports either.
>
>Ok, so I'm on the right mailinglist, that's a start :)
:)

>> What we need is a new maintainer for this stuff.
>
>Who used to be the old one ? Brodu ?

Yes.

(short answers, sorry, not much to say ;-)

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