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Re: [unrelated as hell]
by not me on Thursday 21/Feb/2002, @16:21
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>Ask the user if he wants to start it + give a warning to change his setup
Every distro does config differently. KDE can't go messing with the system startup scripts because it doesn't know how they're laid out. Remember, KDE runs on many systems including Linux, BSD, Solaris, and maybe someday Windows.
> kdesu
Entering the root password just to share some files? That seems silly to me.
> The config file could be set up somewhere in Kcontrol/System.
So KDE is going to be mucking around with your distro's setup of Samba? How will KDE tell samba to use the new config file on system startup (remember, we can't edit the startup scripts)? What happens when a CLI user goes to edit the smb.conf file in /etc and it doesn't work?
If Samba was installed exactly the same way on every distro and every distro used the same startup sequence, KDE could do stuff like this. Right now though, since every distro does things differently, they have to set KDE up specifically for themselves. And they do. This is not the domain of the KDE project.
Perhaps in the future, kpf could be upgraded to be a WebDav server, to allow more ftp-like functionality, perhaps even with ssl for security. I think this might be the best overall solution, even better than Samba integration. As long as security is kept in mind of course. |
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