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

[From: George Farris]

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:31 -0600, tz wrote:
> 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".
> 

Yes well if the file manager in Fremantle would support sftp much like
Nautilus it would almost be a moot point.  I use SMB as well.