Bug#354984: samba support and error messages

[Loïc Minier]

forwarded 354984 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333151
tags 354984 + upstream confirmed
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        Hi,

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> So I guess the bug is twofold:
> 1) nautilus should produce a decent error message (something like
>    "your gnome version doesn't seem to have support for windows
>    shares, please install gnome-vfs-extras")

 Your analysis is correct, but it's not a good idea to mix "packages"
 and "applications".  I don't want to change nautilus to pop up a
 package name.

 However, it would be nice to fix the error message to be more helpful
 (such as "Protocol not supported: smb://").

 I need the exact error message to find where it's used.

> 2) nautilus shoudln't pretend that it can handle smb shares (in the
>    "connect to server" menu and the "Places/Network Server/Windows
>    Network" location) if it can't.

 I filed <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333151> about this.

   Cheers,

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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