KDE4 advice

[ronw at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> > > i heard for example that samba doesn't work properly,
> > > which is very important for my work. so i guess i'll stick to kde3
> for
> >
> > I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how KDE4 could somehow make
> > Samba fail. Samba's completely different. Unless you mean there is
> some
> > configuration tool in KDE4 which doesn't work with Samba. However
> once
> > configured KDE4 should have no interaction with Samba and it should
> work.
> >
> 
> I have been wondering the same thing.
> 
> As far as I can tell, what people are potentially complaining about is
> how
> well Dolphin works with the smb:// approach to loading a SMB/samba
> share.
> 
> -- 
> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
>  

That is correct. It is hard to say whether it is something that has changed in
Dolphin or something else in KDE4. But basically when you select Places in
Dolphin it fails with a message that it cannot find any shares. If you log off
and select standard KDE then samba in Dolphin works fine.
Under KDE4 you cannot even open konsole and run smb on its own.
So something has changed in the KDE4 process but no idea what 

-
Ron Wilson