smb://

[Hans van der Merwe]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 13:29 +0200, Martin Koller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 25 May 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > Anyone know if there are plans for kio_smb to accept MS version of
> > smb:// URIs.
> > ie "smb:\\server\share" or more accurately "\\server\share"
> > Im the lone linux user in our 60 odd windows domain company, everytime
> > someone mails me a link to a share on a server I have to copy-paste and
> > replace all \\ with //.
> > smbmount does accept \\ or //
> 
> I have the same problem as you, being the lone guy using Linux ...
> But when I get such a path, I can simply copy/paste the path (with \\ !) into 
> the "run command" minicli (Alt-F2) Window or also into konquerors location 
> input field without having to manually convert \ -> /
> This is done by KDE automatically and the result is smb://host/path
> 

Holy smb!!, when did this creep into the updates, I promise it didn't
work before.

Wow, sorry, ignore my whining.



> So the only thing which does not work out of the box is having kmail showing 
> such a path as a click-able link - but that is not really a problem.
> 
> P.S.: There is was a discussion on kde-core-devel about this in 2005:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110604107209071&w=2
> 



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