Tkchooser2 - A Unix/X network broswer

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Current Version: 0.65.2

Tkchooser is in beta release. I'm still having trouble with appleshare mounting, but there are good things in sight since someone has taken over afpfs development. It is beta because the code is fairly stable and the plugin architecture, while subject to change, is in place and ready to receive third-party plugins. The tarball contains an architecture/API description of sorts which will hopefully inspire some interest. Help is needed with regards to the appletalk support (originally my primary goal!) as afpfs needs work and broadcast for netatalk needs to be (re)written.

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• 2/14/00: Posted 0.65.2 to fix an alpr bug introduced by the last update. Also added a config directive to indicate phase1 appletalk networks. Should speed up phase1 behavior immensely. (Happy Valentine's day.)
• 2/2/00: Posted 0.65.1 to fix a bad variable name. Thanks to Mike Loeffler for keeping me in line.
• 1/28/00: Posted 0.65 supporting the new smbmount syntax as distributed with samba 2.0.6. This version also supports 2.0.5(a)
• 1/24/00: Beta version of 0.65(a) supporting the new smbmount syntax as distributed with samba 2.0.6. This version also supports 2.0.5(a)
• 11/28/99: RELEASE of version 0.64. The smb code should be somewhat cleaner. Smbmount utilities with syntax corrosponding to the Samba 2.0.5a relase is are now required for mounting smb shared volumes
• 11/15/99: many more bugs squashed in 0.64 pre-releases. You now MUST use the latest version of samba for smbmount to work. They've brought the commandline syntax inline with smbclient and hopefully it will stay that way...
• 9/9/99: Hopefully the embedded space problem in SMB server names is finally fixed. Some small widget updates for more intelligent entry behavior
• 7/29/99: Got my new machine up and running and am finally able to develop at home on a 2.2 kernel. Fixed a parsing bug (variation in smbclient output) and a Makefile oops.
• 7/7/99: NEWS FLASH!! A version of afpfs supporting 2.2.x Linux kernels has been revealed to me here. Appleshare support for tkchooser is now in the works.
• 7/6/99: 0.62pre1 posted. 0.60 final has been skipped. THIS VERSION NOW SUPPORTS smbmount 2.0! woo! A bunch of bug fixes and the first alternative icons set!
• 3/24/99: 0.60pre7 posted here - more SMB fixes, enhancements. The LaserWriter plugin on the appletalk side now supports pap's .paprc feature and an enscript filtering pap wrapper called alpr is now included.
• 3/9/99: 0.60pre4 posted here - hopefully the goof with pre3 that prevented samba from working when $hostname doesn't work now works. yeah, that.
• 3/7/99: 0.60pre2/3 posted here - beginnings of samba-2.0, domain, and local NETBIOS name support
• 3/3/99: 0.59 released - dependancy checking, smoother installation, etc. Sorry about the 0.58.1 release goof yesterday...
• 3/2/99: first tkchooser updates in nearly a year. Development has begun again. Tool dependancy testing is in the works, and many of the dialog boxes will be improved. Samba 2.0+ compatibility is hopefully not far off. There has been some interest in fixing afpfs and appletalk broadcast recently, so I'm optimistic about the appletalk side

• Tcl/Tk versions anything-that-supports-"file" or newer. I THINK that means 7.4/4.2+. I use 8.0 and 8.1. You should too, especially with Suse Linux.
• Netatalk if you want appletalk stuff to work (your kernel must have appletalk support compiled in if you're using linux)
• afpfs if you want to be able to mount appleshare volumes. Note that this is my copy of the source and that the author is no longer supporting it. I have never gotten afpfs to work on my intel systems and thus have not finished the associated interface code in tkchooser. A current implementation for 2.2 kernels has just been pointed out to me at Panix and I'll be working in support ASAP.
• Samba 2.0.5+ if you want SMB stuff to work. Note that only machines supporting the SMB filesystem (Linux + others?) will be able to use the smbmount plugin. This means that you must also have the smbfs utils which are distributed with the samba package for the time being. If your machine does not support smbmount on the commandline (Solaris), then you won't be able to use it in the chooser either.
• GNU Enscript 1.6.1 (or 1.5.5) if you want to use the enscript configurator plugin. Genscript is also available from here

• tkchooser2 0.65.2 80k, 2/14/00
• tkchooser2 0.64 80k, 11/28/99
• tkchooser2 0.63 79k, 9/9/99
• tkchooser2 0.62 78k, 7/29/99
• tkchooser2 0.59 73k, 3/3/99
• tkchooser2 0.58.1 70k, 3/2/99
• tkchooser2 0.58 70k, 3/1/99
• tkchooser2 0.56
• tkchooser2 0.55e

The following are in the tkchooser distribution, but can be used separately as well

• Standalone Enscript configurator

Additional/Contributed Plugins

The plugins listed below have been contributed by other authors and/or are not part of the current distribution. Please see the documentation that comes with them. For the most part, installing a plugin is as simple as copying the tcl file to your untarred distribution's plugin directory, its icon to the distributions icon directory, and running "make install." If you've already installed tkchooser, however, you can just copy the plugin tcl file and icon into your installation's directory tree (e.g. /usr/local/lib/tkchooser/icons, /usr/local/lib/tkchooser/plugins).

• The last Smbshare plugin to support smbmount 1.x (2.0 Linux kernels). Just copy this over the "plugins/Smbshare.tcl" file in the regular distribution
• Brian Kelley's <bkelley at wi dot mit dot edu> smbtar plugin for backing up shared Windows directories to local tar files
• Ilgam Vasilye <vilgam at vniigaz dot gazprom dot ru> Smbshare patch to tkchooser2/plugins/Smbshare.tcl (version 0.56) which implements simple smbfs unmounting via the Smbshare plugin. Versions 0.58 and newer support unmounting natively.

• from Jared Lyvers