text_combined: david golden johoukekucxunisonie thursday 15 november 2007 bernhard rohrer wrote hiya anybody hack make samba shares visible eg mozilla file select boxes seems gtk thing gather gimp archives well iceweasel accept smb sftp urls afaik need supplementary package iceweaselgnomesupport debian least uses gnome vfs layer presumably dont work open file though address bar put eg smblocalhost see list visible shares machine youre bookmark obviously shares actually mounted linux cifs true kernel filesystem theyre accessible filesystem open file file urls im aware patches support nonlocallymounted stuff open file dialog though doesnt mean dont exist try smb url iceweasel installation open file fails quite specific local error kde good support manner strange stuff vfs layer ioslaves couple hacks let use much less annoying kde file dialog replace gnome builtin see uibrowsersomethingorother firefox aboutconfig one firefox iirc dont magically make firefox able use ioslaves local files successfully open replace file selection dialog file readingwriting code personally dislike toolkitspecific vfses really sort thing systemwide eg amiga users merrily cding ftp sites window system sorts things years ago trouble linuxs kernel vfs architecture quite recently hasnt made sort thing easy unprivileged peruser see fuse private fs namespaces even kde gnome arent linuxspecific theyre crossplatform best vfs layers could made aware platform support use theyd still need vfs layers fri 08 aug 2008 062340 0000 ilug samba shares gtk file select boxes