On Monday 28 May 2007, Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote about 'Re: smb://': > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:23 +0100, Graham wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:56:33 +0200 > > > > Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Anyone know if there are plans for kio_smb to accept MS version of > > > smb:// URIs. > > > ie "smb:\\server\share" or more accurately "\\server\share" > > > > As has been pointed out, those are NOT urls because they don't follow > > the RFC for urls which is the way standards are set. > > > > I understand your difficulty, but it arises from a misunderstanding > > by your fellow Windows users. Just because an OS is used by more > > people than anything else does NOT necessarily mean it follows > > standards that have been agreed. > > How much of a "standard" is CIFS? or MSWordDOC/OOXML or WMV/WMA or NTFS > etc etc. Just complaining about MS not being standard based did not get > these working under Linux. And I wouldn't care if they didn't. If someone send me a file/url in a format I can't handle, I ask them for it in a format I can. I also send others Ogg/Theora, Ogg/Vorbis, and ODF files, but I don't have an issue putting content in any other standard format, if requested. (And, IIRC, CIFS is a standard.) > I agree - complain to anyone who will listen about evil MS and their > practises, but also try and get it to work in Linux. > As I said - smbmount is getting this by allowing \\ as well as //. Yes, but kio_* has to handle things *other* than UNC paths. The question I'd ask is, if kio_* treats \ like / does it break any protocols that follow the standard. If not, it sounds like a good idea, might be a nice JJ to throw up on bugs.kde.org. If it would, I'm against it entirely. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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