GNOME VFS layer?

[dr_barnowl]

Is there any possibility of having BCompare access the GNOME VFS layer? It would be nice to be able to browse SMB shares in nautilus and select them for comparisons without having to mount them.

[dr_barnowl]

GVFS seems to mount things in your home folder under ~/.gvfs, which gave me hope.. BUT ; BCompare doesn't seem to like these mounts. Pointing one side of a folder compare at one of these shares as a base folder seems to cause the application to grey out and hang.


(this is Ubuntu Lucid x86_64, by the way).

[Aaron]

Hello,

How did you mount the gvfs? Was it with
Places -> Connect to Server
Service Type: Windows Share
Server: your.server.ip.address
Share: yourshare$
Domain: yourDomain
username: yourusername

Then browsed to it using our Browse dialog. By default, this would be a hidden item, so you would need to hit F8, Ctrl+H, or right-click to expose it. Then selecting our yourshare$ on your.server.ip causes the program to hang. Correct?

[Aaron]

Also, what is the specific path that you are binding to? Does it have a $ or other non-alphanumeric characters?

[dr_barnowl]

I am linking to the administrative share on my Windows laptop ; the path does end with a $ character. I am using the procedure you describe to mount the folder.

Because bcompare doesn't grok the GVFS "smb://" links, I'm manually pasting the path of the folder created as a mountpoint in the ~/.gvfs folder. (eg '~/.gvfs/d$ on 040912-xp'

I think it might be the $ character as you seem to suspect - using a share name without a $ seems to work fine without hanging.

[David]

We did find a problem with the $ character (there was confusion as it is also used for parameter expansion e.g. $HOME). A fix has been put in place.

David