savannah: mc's built-in samba library is out of date

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Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?5142

Submitted by:	Michał Januszewski <spock>	Submitted on:	08 Sep 2003 14:20:05
Category:	VFS	Severity:	3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	4.6.0	Operating System:	All

Discussion:

Wed 30 Jul 2008 05:56:11 PM UTC, comment #2:

I wonder why this wasn't solved in 5 years. It's quite common and 
makes mc unusable. The average timeout is ~1 minute.
	Sorin Sbarnea <sorin>
Mon 05 Dec 2005 02:06:15 AM UTC, comment #1:

We'll have this problem as long as mc uses Samba configuration 
files. Every time Samba changes the format of its configuration 
files, mc will have to be upgraded (not just recompiled).

I see two solutions:

1) Use libsmbclient. This way, upgrading Samba will upgrade the 
client library, and mc will recognize new configuration.

2) Don't use Samba configuration files in mc. Use a separate 
configuration file or store all configuration in ~/.mc/ini

I would prefer that we at least try to use libsmbclient, and if it 
doesn't work, let's report it to Samba maintainers. This way, 
libsmbclient will be ready for mc some day.
	Pavel Roskin <proski>
Mon 08 Sep 2003 02:20:05 PM UTC, original submission:

The mc's built-in samba library which is used to access data across
smb links is taken from an old samba version. This can cause 
problems since things change as time goes on. For example - current 
samba version supports something like: "interface = eth1" in 
smb.conf, the version included in mc does not. This leads to calling
 gethostname("eth1") 3 times at startup (on my box). Recently I have
 had some problems with the DNS servers I use. I had to wait 3 
minutes (!) before mc started because it tried to resolve "eth1" (2 
times ) and "ETH1" (which of course wasn't possible because of the 
DNS server failure).

I have created this patch for mc:
http://www.spock.mga.com.pl/public/gentoo/mc-4.6.0-samba.patch.bz2
(sorry to put it on an external site but since it's almost 600kb, I 
didn't want to upload it here). It updates mc's samba libraries to 
2.2.8a. By doing so it automatically fixes another problem - namely,
 with current vesions of libcap an error (redefinition of struct 
statfs) occurs while building mc.
	Michał Januszewski <spock>