Translation of \\foo\bar links into smb://foo/bar links

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 21:12, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 22:07, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 20:04, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:26, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > > > > smb:// is invalid, you need to give it a host after it.
> > >
> > > smb:/ should do, I think.
> >
> > smb:/ should give...
> >  ... a view of the workgroups in the neighbourhood, plus
> 
> That's what I would expect
> 
> >  ... a view of the other hosts in the own workgroup.
> 
> And this is the one thing I really don't understand why it is done this way 
> under windows.

/me too  ;-)

> Why do the same hosts appear twice ? Why are hosts and  
> workgroups intermixed ? 

Well, they are not exactly "intermixed".

> IMO this is a behaviour we shouldn't copy. 

We should still copy it. Because it is something Windows users 
browsing their network neighbourhood have come to expect. If you
leave away a part you'll get bugreports and complaints. 

To make it a bit clearer, you could show two icons when going
to smb:/

  * [ Workgroups ]

  * [ Workstations ]

You'd have to click on one to open up the full lest of each.

> Bye
> Alex

Cheers,
Kurt