gvfs-smb

[Jayson Rowe]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 08:44 AM, Jayson Rowe wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Christoph Wickert
>> <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 04.07.2012, 19:29 -0400 schrieb Jayson Rowe:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Just wondering if it is a bug, or by design that SMB support isn't
>>>> installed by default?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think we should install SMB by default, but things like sshfs or
>>> webdav are not working either because of
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834261
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Hi Christoph,
>> Thanks for the reply...can I ask why no SMB? The person I mention who
>> is evaluating Fedora saw not having it by default as a huge wart, and
>> I could see others coming to the same conclusion.
>>
> (my view)
> Because the Xfce spin isn't made to be a portable system.
> It's made to install Fedora while having the live preview/test and something
> to start with.
>
> There are many distros that are specifically designed to install to a USB
> pendrive, for instance, and have many things that some people use and some
> don't.
>
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Hi Sergio,
Just curious - what does SMB have to do with being a portable system?
SMB is used to share files to/from Windows systems (primarily). I
literally couldn't do my job if I couldn't hit windows shares - it's a
huge deal for me (and my co-worker who is thinking of switching to
Fedora).
Sure the package could be installed, but he was ready to give up on
Fedora because he couldn't hit shares, nor could he figure out what
package should be installed.
-- 
-jayson