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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: Juanito on April 10, 2009, 03:21:16 AM

Title: samba gui
Post by: Juanito on April 10, 2009, 03:21:16 AM
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?
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: dommy on December 08, 2010, 10:10:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: Arslan S. on December 09, 2010, 08:46:42 AM
maybe this is what you want
http://gadmintools.flippedweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30 (http://gadmintools.flippedweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30)
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/gadmin-samba/ (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/gadmin-samba/)
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: Juanito on December 09, 2010, 08:55:56 AM
Thanks - I'll have a look at this
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on December 09, 2010, 12:43:07 PM
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...
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: andrewb on December 09, 2010, 04:41:22 PM


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.
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: Zendrael on December 10, 2010, 08:27:27 AM
Hi!

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

Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on December 10, 2010, 08:46:08 AM
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?
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: Juanito on December 11, 2010, 07:13:23 AM
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..
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on December 11, 2010, 09:24:34 AM
@Juanito
Could you be persuaded, cajoled or bribed into having a look at Gigolo?

The web site says:
Quote
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
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: Juanito on December 11, 2010, 10:26:19 AM
posted - though I don't have anything to test it with...
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on December 11, 2010, 12:20:47 PM
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.
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: beerstein on January 30, 2011, 01:51:09 PM
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?
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on January 31, 2011, 02:42:07 AM
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?
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: beerstein on January 31, 2011, 06:59:06 AM
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
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on January 31, 2011, 08:26:51 AM
Did you try it out?
Yes but only superficially.  As mentioned in my previous post (reply #13)
...I provided initial feedback of testing Gigolo from the TC repo but it is inconclusive.  

Do you have the knowledge and the time to fix current problems?
In each of the instances where I have seen Gigolo fully working under other distros, GVFS with FUSE support has been used.  There may also be other requirements that I am unaware of [1].  Further testing will be possible if/as/when a suitable (possibly differently named) package of GVFS+FUSE becomes available in the repo.

I can envisage this requiring knowledge and experience, hence asking if any of the regular packagers might be interested.


EDIT
Note [1] Possibly GVfs-Backends.
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: beerstein on January 31, 2011, 09:08:24 AM
HI:
I installed gigolo and found out it is only 10% what the gigolo in XUBUNTU does.
The gigolo.tcz only has the capability  to handle one file format. (UNIX)
Is this the one you are talking about?

The XUBUNTU is probably the same like UBUNTU and would it help to download their
package and re-engineer  it for TC? Or is this illegal?

Since UBUNTU and TC have similar "grandfathers" it might work?
What do you think?

Since I do not have gVfs files in my systems I was not able to use the TC gigolo to connect into on of my machines.  I am aware that gigolo is not the safest utility on the planet

have a good day
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: SamK on January 31, 2011, 10:09:23 AM
If you refer back to reply #10, Juanito did caution that due to a lack of testing facilities it had been posted without testing.  As far as I am aware it was built at my request based upon the information available at the home site for Gigolo.
http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/index.html

There it mentions the build and running requirements and also provides links to its parent project, Xfce Goodies.  If you consider your suggested course of action worthwhile - have a go.  I wish you every success.
   
Title: Re: samba gui
Post by: beerstein on February 01, 2011, 05:57:09 AM
thank you for this.
I think I might not be able to do this project all by myself.
I hope to find some help here in the forum.

If someone here is interested, please let me know.

This gigolo thing is really nice.