MC with SMB as VFS

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 1) Use samba library.  The problem is that such thing doesn't exist (it
> > didn't last time checked).  Contribute it to the Samba team.  Make MC use
> > it when it's installed.
> >
> > 2) Make MC run "smbclient" and parse its output.  May be not so reliable,
> > but no changes in other software are required (hopefully).  This is how
> > FiSH (FIles transferred over SHell) works.
> Actually, I thought just from the user's point of view, not how I (or whoever 
> else) would do it. I must admit that I'm not an expert on samba, but I use 
> smbclient from time to time and its interface is very much like ftp's. And 
> since ftpfs is there, and the usage is like:
> /#ftp:[!][user[:pass]@]machine[:port][remote-dir]

This is approximately how it works. But you have to configure
--with-samba or something like that.
								Pavel
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