firefox extension: file://\\ -> smb://

Mee · **Posted:** Wed 01-12-2005 10:20PM

i got productive today and started making an extension for firefox that'll let you right click a fucked up file://\\whatever\file\youwant.blah url and choose "smbfix" to open that link in smb:// format. but i dont live on campus and don't have access to seek, so i dont know if it works properly or not. or if file://\\ is really the prefix that seek puts on the links. ive tested it with file://\\192.168.0.4\shareddocs\ and a few other examples locally, but thats all im able to do from here.

so,
does it work?
is it worth using?

http://web.umr.edu/~bjk4hf/smbunfuck/smbunfuck.xpi

(you'll probably have to either add that site as "trusted" or just save link as and open it in FF manually)

if this one works but doesnt prove so useful, i could probably also make it open the file:\\// link as smb:// in konqueror/nautilus/etc if you think that would be better

TrogoftheDor · **Posted:** Wed 01-12-2005 11:15PM

doesn't work for me. I just get directed to a 404 page with Calvin & Hobbes.

elyk · **Posted:** Wed 01-12-2005 11:42PM

in linux, i see that the links are of the form
http://131.151.191.95:8080/\\131.151.xxx.xxx\path\to\file
rather than
file://\\131.151.xxx.xxx\path\to\file

gil-galad · **Posted:** Wed 01-12-2005 11:50PM

It doesn't work, but I never use seek so its not that big of a deal.

elyk · **Posted:** Wed 01-12-2005 11:54PM

for the linux/mac community, it would be much easier if there was just an option to use smb-style links, similar to what's already there for the dash42-style links...

just my $.02

Mee · **Posted:** Thu 01-13-2005 2:25AM

elyk wrote:

in linux, i see that the links are of the form
http://131.151.191.95:8080/\\131.151.xxx.xxx\path\to\file
rather than
file://\\131.151.xxx.xxx\path\to\file

made some minor changes to the regexp, try now. i think ive got the formatting right, lemme know if not. ive got it correcting http://131.151.191.95:8080/\\192.168.0.104\SharedDocs\desktop.ini to smb://192.168.0.104/SharedDocs/desktop.ini now.

you can just install the xpi again and restart ff and itll use the new one

Quote:

for the linux/mac community, it would be much easier if there was just an option to use smb-style links, similar to what's already there for the dash42-style links...

i agree, but i dont have any control over that. this is just a sloppy workaround until that (hopefully) gets implemented. and i dont know what you mean with the dash42-style links... i'm off campus and dont have windows.

nohandll · **Posted:** Thu 01-13-2005 9:10AM

If one could be made for konqueror, that would seem much more useful. I much prefer using it to firefox for downloading files, especially of the size on seek.
The format of
http://131.151.191.95:8080/\\192.168.0.104\SharedDocs\desktop.ini to smb://192.168.0.104/SharedDocs/desktop.ini
is what would be needed for konqueror.
Thanks.

Mee · **Posted:** Thu 01-13-2005 2:22PM

the documentation for creating kde plugins sucks... ill look into it though

chip · **Posted:** Thu 01-13-2005 6:40PM

I just use autofs to allow for access to shares automagically via /var/autofs/smbbrowse/SERVERNAME

See http://greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html for setup info, but don't use his script because it doesn't quite work (seems to time out trying to send a command to port 445?).

Code:

auto.smbbrowse:
#!/bin/sh

OPTIONS="-fstype=smbfs,port=139,password=,user=guest    "
SERVER=$1

echo -n "$OPTIONS"

IFS="|"
( smbclient -g -d 0 -N -U guest -p 139 -L $SERVER ) | \
  while read type share comment;
  do
    if [ $type = "Disk" ]
    then
      share=`echo $share | sed 's/[^[:alnum:]]/\\\\&/g'`
      echo -n "/${share} ://${SERVER}/${share} "
    fi
  done

firefox extension: file://\\ -> smb://

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