Hi,

Given the current problems with the smb slave in the KDE CVS Repository
I think it would be very realistic to get your new smb slave into the
2.0 release. I (and probably whole kfm-devel@kde.org ;-) would be
_VERY_ interested it testing it (and including it if it works better
than the current smb ) .

Is there any way to test it? :-)

Thanks,
 Simon

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:35:41PM -0400, Ming Poon wrote:
> 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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