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.<br>
<br>I don't think we can consider ourselves "Normal Users" since we belong to this mailing list, however, I'm very pleased at the tone of support for SMB expressed here; normally on other mailing lists there is a considerable smaller amount of support for windows users and the trials they have to endure.<br>
<br>Just my 2 cents,<br><br>Denis<br><br clear="all">--------------------------------------<br>sik vis paw kem, para bellum<br>--------------------------------------<br>oderint dum metuant<br>--------------------------------------<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Graham Cobb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g%2B770@cobb.uk.net">g+770@cobb.uk.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Monday 19 January 2009 11:53:45 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:<br>
> What SMB would be useful for is sharing data with a network drive.<br>
> They usually share the disk via SMB, NFS or AFP and, as far I know,<br>
> Maemo, starting from Fremantle, does not deploy any of those clients.<br>
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</div>Samba would be an ideal opportunity for Nokia to consider helping" a community<br>
add-on (I would have said "support" but that implies bug fixing, which is not<br>
what I mean). Given that the community exists, with a single place to go<br>
looking for stuff, there is an ideal way for Nokia to provide useful features<br>
without having to commit the resources to test and support them indefinitely.<br>
<br>
Nokia "help" for a community package for Samba (or NFS or AFS or...), fully<br>
integrated into the Maemo environment, could be expressed in several ways.<br>
For example, some Nokia employees could be paid to spend some of their time<br>
on the project (wouldn't it be great if the Maemo team were allowed a<br>
Google-style 20% time to spend on community projects), or Nokia could help<br>
with testing or contribute resources to the upstream project or something.<br>
<br>
I know Nokia marketing has been looking for innovative and sexy projects,<br>
which can show off the features and lifestyle of the new tablet, to help.<br>
But this can also be a useful tool for those more mundane features which<br>
aren't necessarily hard to implement but which consume an unreasonable<br>
proportion of testing and support (like remote filesystems). In exchange,<br>
Nokia would get a useful feature, with no support commitment and would also<br>
be able to measure just how important users think the feature is by measuring<br>
downloads.<br>
<br>
At a minimum, I hope Nokia is providing any code, test scripts, etc. they<br>
developed while they were supporting Samba to the community so that they can<br>
be used if someone else picks up support for it.<br>
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Graham<br>
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