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There is also another kioslave implementation that is not dependent on libsmb++
which enables Konqueror to work well with Windows 2000. Due to the KDE 2 release
time frame, we have not been able to check this into the KDE CVS tree. We would
put this alternative implementation in as soon as KDE 2 is released. In the
meantime, you may contact Alexandr Makaryk (alexandrm@corel.com) to obtain this
for your own testing/usage if so desired. Thanks.

David Faure wrote:

> 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 ;-)
>
> --
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
> KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
> See http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html for how to set up KDE 2

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