[kde-doc-english]Support for file sharing over SMB/NFS

[David Faure]

Laurent just committed the support for sharing files over SMB/NFS from KDE.
This work was done for Mandrake-8.2 while KDE was in freeze for 3.0,
it has now been made a bit more distribution/unix-independent (but not enough,
we need help for that) and committed.
Let me give a few details on how it works:
the design has backend and frontend separated.

The backend is a perl script, "fileshareset", suid-root, which takes care
of updating the appropriate files (typically /etc/exports and smb.conf)
when adding/removing shared directories, and HUPing smbd to get it
to re-read the config. It can also list the currently shared directories.

This feature is DISABLED by default, "root" must enable it first, by
writing RESTRICT=no to /etc/security/fileshareset, or by running the
KControl module that Laurent just wrote for this (runs as root only obviously),
or by adding specific users to the "fileshare" group (the other 2 ways will
enable it for all users).

The intermediate layer (yeah it's actually a 3-layer design ;) is kio/kfileshare.*,
which is the C++ code to communicate with the backend (perl script).

The actual GUI is composed of
* a new tab for the properties dialog (konqueror/kdesktop...), for directories
to let a user share or remove the sharing for a directory under his $HOME
(yes, that's currently the only place allowed for sharing dirs...)
The tab has a message when sharing is disabled for this user, or when
the directory isn't in $HOME.
* a new overlay for filemanager icons, which shows when a directory is shared.
* and the KControl module for root, as mentionned above.

It all works fine... but it has some hardcoded paths. I don't know the LSB,
nor the other Unixes.... so I'm not sure which paths are "constant" and which
ones need to be distribution-dependent.
So if you don't use Mandrake, please check the paths in kdebase/kcontrol/* 
(including the perl script), and in kio/kio/kfileshare.* (I hope that's all...)

David and Laurent,

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Subject: kdelibs/kio/kfile
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:01:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Laurent Montel <montell at club-internet.fr>
To: kde-cvs at mail.kde.org

kdelibs/kio/kfile Makefile.am,1.90,1.91 kpropertiesdialog.cpp,1.217,1.218 kpropertiesdialog.h,1.76,1.77
Author: mlaurent
Tue Apr 16 19:01:49 CEST 2002
In directory office:/tmp/cvs-serv24296/kfile


Modified Files:
         Makefile.am kpropertiesdialog.cpp kpropertiesdialog.h
Log Message:
Add support for share directory.
Patch create by David and me for MandrakeSoft.
It works with on and nfs network

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