Bug#691634: [kdenetwork-filesharing] Does not show
Hello,
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com> wrote:
> tags 691634 - moreinfo
> severity 691634 serious
> retitle 691634 Does not provide anything advertised in the long description,
> otherwise undocumented
> thanks
>
> Hi Lisandro,
>
> On 2012-10-27 16:26, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>
> Control: retitle -1 Long description is wrong
> Control: severity -1 normal
>
> The phrase:
>
> "This package provides a System Settings panel to configure network file-
> sharing using NFS and Samba."
>
> is wrong. It should be something along the lines of:
>
> "This package provides a way to configure network file-sharing using NFS and
> Samba in the properties dialogue of the file manager"
>
>
> Ah, thank you, kdenetwork-filesharing does expand the properties dialog of a
> directory, whether from Dolphin or Konqueror. kdenetwork-filesharing
> provides what its description claims it does in Squeeze, but no longer does
> in Wheezy. It seems the kcm was removed and scrapped, although it used to
> provide much more advanced functionality than the current plugin:
> http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1221565
>
We will provide basic sharing functionality for samba, webdav and
other file sharing methods. Later we will add more advanced config
options.
> GUI: Removing nfs filesharing and old samba filesharing code.
>
> I couldn't find any explanation for the removal.
>
We had a discussion in kde-core-devel about the nfs support removal.
The reason is unmaintained code that needs superuser rights.
>
> And this is working.
>
> As the files list suggests and as the commit message seems to confirm (since
> it doesn't specify it refers to the *old* filesharing code for NFS), there
> is nothing left to configure NFS.
>
> FWIW, I apparently also couldn't get kdenetwork-filesharing to work - that
> is actually get the machine to share a directory that can be seen by an SMB
> client - but that shall be matter for a later report.
Could you explain me later the details of this issue?
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