konqueror mount.cifs-support?

[Juergen Pfennig]

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 12:56, Guido Fiala wrote:
> Hallo developer-team,
>
> since Win XP smbmount is no longer suitable 

What Do you mean by that? The smb/cifs kernel module is badly broken (at least 
in SuSE's kernels 2.6.5 or so and in the 2.4 series as well as in some newer 
Kernels from Mantel/SuSE). Currently the kernel module only handles small 
files and server side sym links are resolved incorrectly (SuSE at least 
ignores bug reports on this). Also the kernel module is about 20% slower than 
it should. The smbclient (samba suite) can handle large files (>2 GByte) and 
resolves server side sym links correctly. It also reaches the same speed as 
Windows does.

> - how is the status of 
> cifs-mount in konqueror/kde? (i searched the devel-archive but found no
> thread about it, pardon if i missed something)

You are talking of the SMB kio slave? I have just tried it with a Samba server 
(downloading a 3.3 GByte file). Konqueror said it was downloading with 6 ... 
8 MByte/s on an idle 100 MBits/s network, which would be a very very good 
value for SMB. The Ftp kio slave reaches about 10 MByte/s (but FTP is a full 
duplex protocoll). After a while the progress dialog (using the "all in one 
window" version) says:

          100% of 16 777 216,0 TB

Which is a BUG (in the progress dialog or the smb slave). It also says that  
"Rem. Time: 00:00:00" but continues to download. Finally the 3.3 GByte 
arrived at the client side and the defective progress window went away. The 
file was apearently not corrupted. Trying an upload of the same file showed 
the same strange speed value, but the progress was reported correctly this 
time. Finally my server said that it got a 3.3 GByte file.

I could not test wether the sym link behaviour is correct as my server has 
"unix extensions" disabled because of the smbfs problems mentioned earlier.

Conclusion: the smb kio slave is surprisingly fast (for SMB) and it can handle 
large files. The progress dialog is broken for SMB donwloads but works for 
uploads.

Yours Jürgen