Ubuntu needs a NFS mount wizard
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-vfs (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu needs a wizard that will be activated when Places -> Network Servers is used to find another computer on the LAN. When a computer on the LAN is connected to, a wizard should pop up, asking the user to supply a username/password to log onto the remote computer. Once the username/password combination is confirmed by the remote computer, the individual has access to the visible folders on the remote computer.
This will mirror similar behavior seen when a user on a WinXP machine browses the LAN and selects an OS X machine. Once the user on the WinXP machine enters a username/password which is valid on the OS X machine, he sees that username's folders on the OS X machine.
For usability reasons, the end user on Ubuntu should not have to delve into config files. Instead the wizard should make the edits necessary (using gksudo if necessary).
| Changed in nfs-utils: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote | #1 |
| Jeremy Vies (jeremy.vies) wrote | #2 |
this has nothing to do with NFS (as in Network File System). Avahi is probably what you want, and feisty will have it enabled on default. Don't know how far it will be implemented.