What do I need to do to get the smb protocol to work in SUSE 11.4? When I type in smb://ipaddress on my local network, I get an error saying Firefox does not know how to handle it. Yet I have another Linux work station which is Ubuntu 10.04 and it works fine so I am assuming it is something to do with SUSE.
Check your firewall settings. I think you should add samba-client and netbios to the allowed services, iirc.
Firefox has nothing to do with smb as its a browser, open a file manager and then type smb:// into it.
For example Dolphin on KDE.
Firefox can handle smb, at least to a certain degree. Just tried it after I read the OP.
That may be so and yes it does work in nautilus, but smb does work in firefox on my Ubuntu box so there must be a way to get Suse to work as well.
How did you get it to work?
I added netbios to the allowed services as smbclient was already allowed, but still no luck.
Actually, after I read your post, I just tried smb://ip… in Firefox and it just worked. I’ve done nothing to get it to work. Maybe there’s a setting in Firefox’s about:config. Somewhere around “network.protocol-handler” I would guess. Oh, I use Firefox 3.6 btw.
Whatsoever, I think every file browser is way more convenient for smb than firefox is.
Ok, tried it again with openSUSE 11.4 and Firefox 4.0b12. Didn’t work…
Hi,
Am 27.03.2011 01:36, schrieb Z K:
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> What do I need to do to get the smb protocol to work in SUSE 11.4? When
> I type in smb://ipaddress on my local network, I get an error saying
> Firefox does not know how to handle it. Yet I have another Linux work
> station which is Ubuntu 10.04 and it works fine so I am assuming it is
> something to do with SUSE.
This feature is unfortunately missing with openSUSE 11.4.
Firefox used gnome-vfs before to provide it and the Firefox on 11.4 uses
gio to replace almost all gnome-vfs functions.
Providing the smb protocol is one of the missing ones. However I’m
wondering if people really used it since it was quite basic.
Wolfgang
Thanks Wolfgang for providing the background information. “Quite basic” is what I would call the smb integration in Firefox as well. Until today, I didn’t even know it exists/existed. As Chrysantine said, it’s not a file manager it’s a webbrowser and hence most of us have never even tried to use smb with Firefox. Even if sometime in the future gio will provide the same functionality that kio does, Firefox will hardly be a replacement for Dolphin or Nautilus, or even Konqueror.
Cheers
sascha
On 03/27/2011 09:06 AM, supertimorplusfort wrote:
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> Thanks Wolfgang for providing the background information. “Quite basic”
> is what I would call the smb integration in Firefox as well. Until
> today, I didn’t even know it exists/existed. As Chrysantine said, it’s
> not a file manager it’s a webbrowser and hence most of us have never
> even tried to use smb with Firefox. Even if sometime in the future gio
> will provide the same functionality that kio does, Firefox will hardly
> be a replacement for Dolphin or Nautilus, or even Konqueror.
I tried Firefox V4 in openSUSE 11.4 using KDE. It popped up a screen saying that
it needed an application to complete this request. When I selected Dolphin, up
came the Dolphin screen with a listing of the share.
Right, but in Firefox 3.6 you could browse the shares.
On 03/27/2011 12:06 PM, supertimorplusfort wrote:
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> Right, but in Firefox 3.6 you could browse the shares.
I’m pretty certain that openSUSE did not change that behavior. You need to
complain to Mozilla.
Sorry for that. I did not want to complain, nor was my post intended to be rude. Even though english is not my mother tongue, wrosenauer’s post was quite informative to me. In my previous post I just wanted to express, that I was astonished that Firefox < 4.0 can talk a little bit of smb.
I was kind of wondering about that since Suse 11.4 comes with Firefox 4 beta. I don’t really care for the new Firefox anyway. Oh well, I guess I will just use Nautilus. Thanks for the info.
Thanks everyone for the great info. I probably won’t use the smb function in Firefox much anyway, but I just thought it was curious as to why it worked on one distribution and not the other. Another reason not to update to Firefox 4 on my other distribution. Perhaps I will submit a bug to Mozilla. Maybe they will have it working in the final release of Firefox 4.