A request for more agressive updates to FC

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Steve Brenneis wrote:
> Carlos,
> 
> Could you expand on what you mean by GNOME in FC2 SMB being totally
> broken? Symptoms, etc.? I'm interested because that is my impression as
> well. I haven't posted much about that here (avoiding troll branding),
> but I would like to know what you are encountering. Maybe we can fix
> some of them together.
> 
> Some of the issues I have with GNOME seem to have been there in FC1 as
> well.
> 
> Just curious. Thanks.

In FC1 the smb support in nautilus actually worked quite well for me, at 
least at home (one Windows XP, one FC1 and one Red Hat 8.0). At work it 
could never browse the network, it always complained about the master 
browser (but I could access shares by address) which I could never quite 
debug since the network is filled with w2k, w98, w2k3 and samba shares 
and my machine is connected to two different networks... (this doesn't 
speak well for smb support in nautilus, but it was kind of experimental 
back then anyway...).

In FC2 the network browser shows nothing, and if I use the machine name 
directly I'm asked for a password even for completely public shares (eg. 
on the RedHat 8.0 machine). If I'm lucky I can use the share after this, 
but more often than not nautilus just crashes.
The samba tools seem to work fine however.

There are a couple of bugs filed about these problems, both to Red Hat's 
and GNOME's bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122292
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148295
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147204
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129890

Carlos Rodrigues

PS: actually I wasn't quite fair when bringing this problem up in the 
context of my last post because it isn't fixed upstream yet. However I 
think is just the kind of problem that gets "FIXED RAWHIDE" instead of 
"FIXED ERRATA" when upstream does fix it.