Moodle Plugins directory: Windows Share access (AKA Network Drive Access, SMB Web Client): Comments

Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 10:14 AM - Peter de Groot

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 02:14:10 GMT

by Peter de Groot.

@Guy ... cheers for the kudos.... sadly it was more a matter of good luck, rather than skill. My php skillset is way below what is required for this sort of work.

But tx again for compliment...

Monday, 20 April 2020, 6:43 PM - Guy Thomas

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:43:08 GMT

by Guy Thomas.

@Peter - thanks for fixing it. Would you like me to make you a maintainer of this project?

Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 1:20 PM - Peter de Groot

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 05:20:52 GMT

by Peter de Groot.

Think I have fixed it.. PHP 7.2
It was related to changing the session name when it had been previously defined.

After a look around, the session name has already been defined in the include file... so this is redundant ?? Cannot see anywhere to change it on the config page..

So I just commented out this line of code in the routine and it seems to work fine..

Wednesday, 24 July 2019, 12:13 PM - Peter de Groot

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:13:15 GMT

by Peter de Groot.

Guy,

Sorry to be a pain.. but I have just upgraded to Moodle version 3.7.1 on Ubuntu 18.04, and more importantly, PHP 7.2.
When I try to use the block I get this error .................

Warning: session_name(): Cannot change session name when session is active in /mnt/d2/moodle/blocks/smb_web_client/class_smbwebclient.php on line 267

This appears to be a known problem with PHP 7.2 as other people are complaining as well..
For instance https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76358

Would you have a moment to have a look... ?

Yours in hope
Peter

Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 4:30 AM - Guy Thomas

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:30:12 GMT

by Guy Thomas.

@Lukasz - I haven't had time to do a Moodle 35 version yet, sorry

Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 2:00 AM - Lukasz Grochowicz

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:00:58 GMT

by Lukasz Grochowicz.

I just wonder if you can help. On Moodle 3.5 with PHP 7.1we are getting the following error: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: print_header() can not be used any more. Please use $PAGE methods instead.

Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 10:42 AM - Peter de Groot

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:42:12 GMT

by Peter de Groot.

All good here too... many thanks

Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 6:29 AM - Colin Wheelhouse

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:29:21 GMT

by Colin Wheelhouse.

Thanks Guy, much appreciated. Best regards, Colin

Saturday, 18 November 2017, 10:26 PM - Guy Thomas

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:26:23 GMT

by Guy Thomas.

I've fixed windows share web client with 3.3: You can download it from: https://github.com/gthomas2/moodle-block_smb_web_client

Sadly, to make the plugin pass all Moodle's coding style checks I'd have to do some significant rewriting which is why you can only get it from github.

Sunday, 15 October 2017, 2:54 PM - Colin Wheelhouse

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 06:54:00 GMT

by Colin Wheelhouse.

Hi Guy,
Have you had any opportunity to take a look at this issue. I know you are extremely busy and appreciate that this is not your full time. job.

I have staff and students really desperate to access their files from home.

Hope you are well.

Colin

Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 4:22 PM - Guy Thomas

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:22:35 GMT

by Guy Thomas.

Hi Colin / Peter. Thanks for reporting these recent bugs. I'm sorry I haven't been unable to replicate it or fix it as I haven't had the time to set up an LDAP server + shares. I'll do this as soon as I get some time.

Thursday, 21 September 2017, 7:49 PM - Colin Wheelhouse

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:49:59 GMT

by Colin Wheelhouse.

Update, with debugging turned on this error message appears,
Notice: Undefined index: homeDirectory in /var/www/html/blocks/smb_web_client/class_smbwebclient_moodle.php on line 164

Colin

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 10:24 PM - Colin Wheelhouse

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:24:10 GMT

by Colin Wheelhouse.

Hi folks, I have uploaded the latest Master version from GitHub and it has now allowed access to the shares again, however the home directory is not accessible by students or staff even though as before the field is populated in AD. I should say that all was working fine before we upgraded to 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 at the beginning of the summer.

When accessing the home directory this message appears.

Sorry, you cannot view your homedirectory online

Error Message: No home directory specified in ldap for this user

Any ideas?

Cheers

Colin

Friday, 8 September 2017, 3:51 PM - Peter de Groot

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 07:51:51 GMT

by Peter de Groot.

Sadly ... a problem has seemed to come up with 3.3.1

The fixed shares seem to come up fine... but when I try to access my Home directory (presumably dynamic) .. it comes up with this error

Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: print_header() can not be used any more. Please use $PAGE methods instead.

More information about this error

Monday, 21 November 2016, 5:27 PM - Guy Thomas

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:27:16 GMT

by Guy Thomas.

@Peter - thanks for the update - I'm glad it's usable for you again. I think the login screen is a system dialog so I'm not sure I can do anything about it.