[maemo-developers] Samba support dropped (was Re: N810 WE)

[From: tz]

I use it mainly because my laptops (both mac and linux) have shared
public folders, and they are shared using SMB, so in the filemanager
my computers popup and I can access or transfer things just by moving
them to/from the public folder.  I can do so via bluetooth or other
mechanism but sometimes wireless is easier since I can browse the
public folder.

This is NOT file syncing on a massive scale, it is copying one or two
media files.  SSH is NOT installed by default, but I've installed it
so I also do "scp (files) root at ip_address:/media/mmc1 or whatever".

This has proved to be very convenient at times and it would be
something I would miss in Fremantle, though a "1-click" install would
be sufficient since I know SMB involves a lot of files, configuration,
and space and not everyone uses it.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dr. Nicholas Shaw <Doc at docharley.com> wrote:
>>I wonder if it's possible to put up an interest poll, and see what users
>> are looking for? I myself use SMB at home to >support the two windows
>> systems the kids use, and allow for an easy mounting on the remaining 3
>> Mac's, however, >currently I'm not using SMB to mount to my n810; it would
>> be like using SMB to have two Unix systems share files.
>