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smb:// client scheme #1121

Closed Siskin-Bot closed 4 years ago

Siskin-Bot commented 4 years ago

Submitted by: BrianH

A popular file sharing protocol is SMB (Server Message Block), used by Windows or Samba file servers. It would be helpful to be able to refer to files and directories on such services without needing to mount folders on the underlying system.

It would be helpful to have a native smb:// client scheme that juust wraps around the SMB client support of the underlying platform. On Windows that would be the native support, on Unix-like platforms it would wrap the Samba APIs.

This scheme would be a good idea to implement in a plugin - or two plugins, one wrapping Samba, one wrapping Windows, as long as the external behavior is the same. The Windows plugin could even be included by default in the standard Windows R3 host.

Note: This proposal is an alternative to #1115.

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Imported from: CureCode [ Version: alpha 74 Type: Wish Platform: All Category: Ports Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ] Imported from: https://github.com/rebol/rebol-issues/issues/1121

Comments:

Rebolbot commented on Jul 21, 2009:

Submitted by: Carl

1115 is fixed. But, SMB is useful... if someone wants to write it.

Rebolbot added Type.wish and Status.important on Jan 12, 2016

Oldes commented 4 years ago

Closing for now as there is no time to play with such enhancements when there is still over 1000 opened issues.