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Daniel Morales wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Reading this about fusesmb reminds me that  i been working in a thunar
> plugin to share files using samba from a while.
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> It's like 'nautilus-share' but for Thunar and with a couple features
> more than that thanks to the Thunar API ;)... just say that maybe can be
> useful at this point for Xubuntu some day.
>
> Currently the project is hosted at launchpad, but probably i will get a
> XFCE Goodies account for it in a couple of days.
> URL: https://launchpad.net/thunar-shares/
>
> Also i'm working in a package for it but still needs some work. If any
> MOTU around here interested in help me with that please contact me that
> i've some questions :)
>
> /danielm
>
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> Chris Francy escribió:
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>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
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>>> For those who don't know, a quick overview can be read at [1], the meetin log can be read at [2].
>>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2008-07-12
>>> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Xubuntu_2008-07-12
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>>> [16:11] <cody-somerville> Who has tried that fusesmb hack?
>>> [16:13] <cody-somerville> Might we could do is have fusesmb mount on login configured with their credentials, etc. etc.
>>> [16:12] <cody-somerville> j1mc, although I couldn't write to share but I dunno if that was fusesmb or how the share's configuration
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>> I have used the fusesmb for network browsing.
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>> Installing by default worries me a bit.  With fusesmb you have to
>> store the unencrypted smb passwords in a text file for it to work.
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>> On the system where I use fusesmb I have dm-crypt setup for all my
>> filesystems.  So having my passwords unencrypted in the filesystem
>> isn't as big of an issue since the entire partition is encrypted.   I
>> don't think most people use whole-disk encryption though.  So it seems
>> like users should be warned/reminded about the possibility that anyone
>> with a livecd could steal there authentication credentials.
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Interesting. Does it work at the moment. I have installed it but I 
cannot see how to use it.