[Samba] Samba on Chrome OS

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Thu Jul 31 12:04:45 MDT 2014


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On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:45:37 -0400, Eli Grey wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:48 PM, David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de> wrote:  
> > A native Samba based smbclient for ChromeOS would be a great feature,
> > but I take it libsmbclient's GPL license may be an issue.    
> 
> As Google has stated that they will not support SMB natively, that
> means that this must be a Chrome packaged app, installed from the
> Chrome Web Store or manually with the .crx file.  

Sorry I was unclear, I meant native C using the NaCl.

> The GPL license will
> not be an issue. There are quite a few GPL-licensed Chrome extensions
> and apps that are already distributed on the Chrome Web Store, so I
> wouldn't expect any problems with that.  

Great!

Cheers, David


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