Bug 90518
| Summary: | No obvious way to access Samba client browser while running KDE | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mitsu Hadeishi <mitsu> |
| Component: | kdeadmin | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-09 08:06:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Hmm. Further experimentation shows that smb:/ doesn't work consistently in Konqueror. Though it lists the shares you cannot always navigate into them correctly. For example, setting up a Samba server on localhost and then attempting to navigate into a share results in a blank display (but exploring using Nautilus or smbclient works fine). So how does one explore Samba share in KDE under Red Hat 9? What I am doing now is running Nautilus inside KDE, but that's clearly a kludgy way to do this. it's fixed in kdebase-3.1-13, which will be released as errata soon. I hope you're also going to fix the UI issue that is associated with this bug, i.e., that it is not obvious at all that one ought to type smb:/// into Konqueror to browse Samba shares. It's also not clear from a UI point of view how one might mount Samba shares into the filesystem. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: For a variety of reasons I prefer the KDE desktop (ease of creating launchers that run as root, etc.). However, in Red Hat 9's implementation of the KDE desktop, it's not at all obvious how one would go about finding the Samba client browser. After rebooting back in GNOME I realized I needed to type in smb:/ into a Konqueror window, and all would be well... In the GNOME desktop it's possible to find this via the "start here" icon --- while running KDE, there's no clear way to figure this out. In other distros there is the "LinNeighborhood" --- the RH9 solution is more elegant, but there should be a default icon somewhere to find this (ideally, even on the desktop, but at the very least in one of the menus). I wasted at least an hour trying to figure this out... seems for usability's sake, this ought to be addressed in a future release of Red Hat. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run KDE session 2. Try to figure out how to browse Samba shares 3. Actual Results: No obvious way to figure this out Expected Results: Would prefer if there were some icon pre-set to browse Samba shares Additional info: