samba gui

[Juanito]

Does anybody have any suggestions for a gtk1/gtk2 gui for samba?

LinNeighborhood requires smbmount which is not present in the later versions of samba (but works OK otherwise) and pyLinNeighborhood requires several large chunks of bloat-o-gnome like nautilus - is there anything that doesn't require gnome/kde/etc?

[dommy]

Looking for the same thing found  this link http://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/ but some of the links no longer work but at least its a start

I downloaded and installed smbc-1.2.2.tgz which needed popt and ncurses to compile and got it to work OK .
Not bad for an ncurses based system.

[Arslan S.]

maybe this is what you want
http://gadmintools.flippedweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/gadmin-samba/

[Juanito]

Thanks - I'll have a look at this

[SamK]

maybe this is what you want

Arslan S. - Where were you when I needed you...?
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7393.0

It's good to see there is still potentially life in this...
   

[andrewb]

LinNeighborhood requires smbmount ....

What about a shell script that substitutes for smbmount to the extent required by LinNeighbourhood? I had a go at this & got something working. I can't remember where I stored the script & as I didn't need samba at the time I didn't pursue it to a finalised version.

[Zendrael]

Hi!

Have you tried a combination of Swat and Gigolo? I am using both and it's good enough and light for me.

[SamK]

Hi!

Have you tried a combination of Swat and Gigolo? I am using both and it's good enough and light for me.

I'm curious, would you explain your use a little further?

Does your setup of Gigolo automatically discover whatever network shares are available on your LAN and mount them?  Also, which version of Samba are does your Swat setup work with (is the server running TC)?

These might be most useful extensions, would you consider making them available in the repository?
   

[Juanito]

What about a shell script that substitutes for smbmount to the extent required by LinNeighbourhood? I had a go at this & got something working. I can't remember where I stored the script & as I didn't need samba at the time I didn't pursue it to a finalised version.

Hey - welcome back, that running dog still makes me smile.

The shell script substitution sounds like a good idea, if you could find it and post it, that would be great.

In the meantime, gadmin-samba posted, but I don't know how useful it is..

[SamK]

@Juanito
Could you be persuaded, cajoled or bribed into having a look at Gigolo?

The web site says:

The only hard dependency is GTK2 (2.12 or newer).

Used on Lubuntu it works quite well.

Installation: http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/install.html
Home: http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/index.html
   

[Juanito]

posted - though I don't have anything to test it with...

[SamK]

posted - though I don't have anything to test it with...

Thanks - a most impressive speed of response.

I've installed it together with gvfs and had a very superficial look, but it isn't playing nicely.  It sees local partitions but won't allow the creation of bookmarks to cater for automatic mounting and doesn't see the network shares at all.  I'll continue to investigate but hopefully, Zendrael will revisit and provide some info about the system he/she has working mentioned in Reply #6.

[beerstein]

Hi:
 I found this " GIGOLO GUI" in XUBUNTU 10.10 and I used it there and I think it is an outstanding
tool. It is compact, eficcient and nice. I really would like to have a TC 3 extension from this tool, but I am afraid I do not have the
knowledge to compile it from source.

Did somebody do this already?
Or could somebody give me some help and hints how to do it by myself?

[SamK]

Hi:
 I found this " GIGOLO GUI" in XUBUNTU 10.10 and I used it there and I think it is an outstanding
tool. It is compact, eficcient and nice. I really would like to have a TC 3 extension from this tool, but I am afraid I do not have the
knowledge to compile it from source.

Did somebody do this already?
Or could somebody give me some help and hints how to do it by myself?

It seems as though we may have similar goals...
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7393.0

Earlier posts in this thread discuss Gigolo and Juanito was kind enough to package it for the TC3 repo.  Unfortunately, it does not work as described for Lubuntu.  The cause may be related to this topic:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7610.0
It points towards using GVFS in conjunction with FUSE, however for the reasons given in the latter topic GVFS has been compiled without FUSE support.

In reply #11 of this current topic I provided initial feedback of testing Gigolo from the TC repo but it is inconclusive.  To test further, I suspect, may require a version of GVFS which is compiled with FUSE support.  Would any of the regular packagers be interested in providing a testing package?  If so, it might be clearly differentiated from the current GVFS by giving a different name and testing status.

In reply #5 of this current topic, an idea was suggested to use LinNeighbourhood and replacing smbmount (no longer working) with a script (cifs-utils?).  Has anyone tried this?
   

[beerstein]

Hi: thank you for your post. I did not know that there is gigolo.tcz already in the TC3 repo.
Did you try it out?

Do you have the knowledge and the time to fix current problems?

Does the new version 3.4.1 or 3.5 have any effect - so that it might be easier to fix current problems