Hi All,
Some good solutions came out of this thread, but I also wonder why Nautilus cannot simply open files through smb://
I would expect it to be able to do this. Even if it is only downloading the file to /tmp and opening it locally for the user as mentioned by Adam. Seems like simple HCI to me. 1 click is better than 5.
Any Nautilus hackers on this list? I'm using Gnome. Not sure if that matters or not.
Cheers, Chris
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:54, William Hooper wrote:
Adam Voigt said:
The whole point is to make this as easy for someone coming over to Windows as possible, and if every time someone sits down at a computer, I have to open a terminal and manually mount the share, or manually edit the fstab for the new user sitting there, it's useless.
You should set up the shares on an nfs server and use autofs. Then see how easy it is for the Windows users...
You are comparing apples and oranges. Sometimes you have to settle for fruit cocktail. Unless you get all the apps you want to use to use the same library as Nautilus (gnome-vfs?) then you have to mount the share. Personally I use autofs to mount any SMB shares I need. You might look into setting it up with separate mountpoints for the different users (with separate credentials files of course).
-- William Hooper