Asking for credentials when authentication fails
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#31 Asking for credentials when authentication fails
I have opened the bug 9296 (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9296) in samba that can't permit the access to windows shares if winbind offline logon is active. Nautilus ask for a new credentials access like windows do but smbnetfs can't access to share at all. Can smbnetfs ask to the user new credentials when authentication fails?
Piviul
This is one of the most desirable features. Unfortunately it's not so easy to implement as smbnetfs works as system daemon and hense do not communicate with console/X11. This require something like dbus communication and GUI client application. A patch or sample of code doing this communication will be a great help for me
there is a back side of this feature, passwords requests can be too annoying. smbnetfs do a periodic network scan, during scan it connect to your local master browser, then to master browsers in other group. As results you may get a periodic popuping window with password query. The other problem is miltiuser access if smbnetfs mounted with "-o allow_other" option.
needs more ideas
Hi Mikhail, in my opinion smbnetfs don't have to ask for a password during a network scan: smbnetfs has to ask for a password only during an explicit request, only when a user ask for a resource that the current user can't access... like windows do.
Any way thanks a lot I like smbnetfs
Piviul