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Re: [Debathena] #201: DFS (Windows desktop) browsing through the GUI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Debathena Trac)
Tue Apr 14 22:46:49 2009
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:45:53 -0000
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#201: DFS (Windows desktop) browsing through the GUI------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
Reporter: geofft | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Component: --
Keywords: |
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Old description:
> There's a dfsclient in the samba locker; it's cool, and quite helpful.
> But, Debathena should be able to mount CIFS directly and show them in a
> way accessible through the GUI and through the standard UNIX file system,
> without any effort, via the samba package. This would make accessing your
> WIN.MIT.EDU files on Athena really easy. We should either make some UI
> for mounting your DFS homedir, or document the process to do it manually.
>
> It's also quite possible that samba has fixed the bug with referrals that
> necessitates the dfsclient command; if they haven't, we should figure out
> why not and submit a patch upstream.
New description:
There's a dfsclient in the samba locker; it's cool, and quite helpful.
But, Debathena should be able to mount CIFS directly and show them in a
way accessible through the GUI and through the standard UNIX file system,
without any effort, via the smbclient package (which is installed by
default on Ubuntu and Debian graphical). This would make accessing your
WIN.MIT.EDU files on Athena really easy. We should either make some UI for
mounting your DFS homedir, or document the process to do it manually.
--
Comment(by geofft):
> It's also quite possible that samba has fixed the bug with referrals
that necessitates the dfsclient command; if they haven't, we should figure
out why not and submit a patch upstream.
In fact, they have; all I need to run is
{{{
smbclient -k //win.mit.edu/dfs -D profiles/g/geofft
}}}
to get smbclient's ftp-like interface.
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/201#comment:1>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
