diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 93172204b..7a5648b73 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  - Miguel Bolanos: substituted "Ultra SPARC" with "UltraSPARC"
                    Alpha optimisations selection
                    Documentation/ updates
+ - Juergen Sawinski: fixed gnome-vfs-extras to utilize samba
 
 *) 2003-12-17 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
 
diff --git a/package/gnome24/gnome-vfs-extras/gnome-vfs-extras.conf b/package/gnome24/gnome-vfs-extras/gnome-vfs-extras.conf
index 33276f05a..426180848 100644
--- a/package/gnome24/gnome-vfs-extras/gnome-vfs-extras.conf
+++ b/package/gnome24/gnome-vfs-extras/gnome-vfs-extras.conf
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@
 
 . $base/package/*/*/gnome-24.conf
 
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "LDFLAGS=\"-L${pkg_samba_prefix}/lib\" CFLAGS=\"-I${pkg_samba_prefix}/include\" CPPFLAGS=\"-I${pkg_samba_prefix}/include\""
diff --git a/package/rene/samba/samba.conf b/package/rene/samba/samba.conf
index 7210dae08..0fe2b11f8 100644
--- a/package/rene/samba/samba.conf
+++ b/package/rene/samba/samba.conf
@@ -57,4 +57,5 @@ EOS
 
 srcdir="samba-$ver/source"
 hook_add postmake 3 "samba_pm"
-
+hook_add postmake 3 "echo \"pkg_samba_prefix=/$prefix\" \
+        > $root/var/adm/parse-config/samba"