On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:01 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: > > in theory what you suggest should work. but I've certainly had plenty > > of cases where for reasons unknown to me I couldn't browse to a > > particular machine or share, but could manually mount it just fine. > > I second this. I have -never- gotten Windows Network browsing to work > reliably, under either the latest versions of Ubuntu or Fedora. And > that's after browsing through numerous Samba packages and firewall > settings posts for both distros (although at least Fedora has that > handy Samba toggle in system-config-firewall). > > For the lay person, it's just unconquerable. Being able to integrate > into the local network should be a default feature for desktop users, > with little to no configuration needed. > > Heck, I can't even get Gnome's User File Sharing to work between > Ubuntu and Fedora unless I completely deactivate the firewalls -- and > Fedora doesn't come with the correct packages installed by default; > you have to hunt down certain Apache and DAV packages yourself before > you can activate the -built-in- file sharing! > > Couple this with bugreports that GVFS (the new GNOME filesystem > library) can't do logins to certain Windows domains, WebDAV using NTLM > (a type of Windows authentication that has been successfully > implemented elsewhere), or support different profiles (like read-only > Guest, but read-write requires a real account on the target PC) and > network-sharing is just a pain in the arse. > > I apologize for the bitterness. > What is interesting is that the disk on my Wife's XP machine shows up by default under the Computer icon on my desktop. I never did anything consciously to put it there. -- ======================================================================= Q: What do you call a blind, deaf-mute, quadraplegic Virginian? A: Trustworthy. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
