[MPlayer-dev-eng] Added new protocol smb://

[Sytse Wielinga]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:17:32PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-10-06 um 11.35 schrieb Kim Minh Kaplan:
> 
> > > What is wrong about mounting file systems?
>  
> > To do this you need root privileges.  If you use an automounter then
> > you might run into login/password and uid mapping difficulties.  Also
> > I believe smbfs is very Linux specific.
> 
> This is wrong, if you enter a filesystem to be mounted in fstab you can
> specify "user" as option which will allow any user, or the ones you want
> to, to mount the filesystem without root privileges...

Well, if the administrator of the system knows *all* smb shares of the
entire network and updates them every day, he could do that, yes. But
in lots of configurations this is just too labor-intensive, if not
impossible. And even if it is possible, in lots of cases it isn't
wanted, because it could be seen as a security threat, and could make
the system crash. So some alternative way is indeed useful.

Sytse Wielinga