SMB for FUSE 0.8.4 review

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With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem. Instead of mounting one

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 113K
Developer: Vincent Wagelaar
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With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem.

Instead of mounting one Samba share at a time, you mount all workgroups, hosts and shares at once. Only when you're accessing a share a connection is made.

Here are some key features of "SMB for FUSE":
Browsing workgroups/hosts and shares from any application
Streaming of files (movies/music)
Browsing the network is fast because all hosts and shares are cached

Other solutions as GnomeVFS or KIO slaves provide a similar solution, but have a few disadvantages:

Programs need to be rewritten to make them network transparent.
KIO Slaves cannot stream files making movie/music playing over LAN impossible.
Gnome VFS just is unstable on my system, although is offers streaming.
Automounting shares is possible, but you cannot see more than 8 at a time, because NT Workstation limits the number of connections it's also a lot slower.

Requirements:
FUSE >= 1.0
Python >= 2.3
Samba >= 3.0
libsmbclient >= 3.0

What's New in This Release:
This release fixes a segmentation fault in the configuration file parser and fixes a problem with temporary cache files.
The program is now compatible with FUSE 2.5 as well.

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