a most annoying difference between Ubuntu Gnome & Kubuntu

[Orjan Sinclair]

Maybe someone can finally help me out on this one: 
For starters I prefer the KDE gui and the apps over Gnome. However, I have to 
work in windows domains quite often, served by W2003 servers. 

And here is my bone of contention: 
From Ubuntu I go to the network server. I get asked for my id & password. I 
supply them and sometimes "put them on the keyring". After that I can open 
documents, spreadsheets etc. straight from OpenOffice and other software 
without problems, edit and so forth and then save.

Now try this in Kubuntu. You get nicely asked again for username/password and 
you end up on whatever share you are going for. Try open a document from Oo 
or Koffice or whatever. "smb protocol only partially supported, a local copy 
will be created". And this is AFTER you figured out you must open from within 
Oo but using Konq dialogs (an option in Oo). Try clicking a file on the share 
directly and Oo will start, you will see the banner and then.... nothing. 

I can work my way around this by now by mounting the share first using CIFS 
(not smb) and giving username & password in the mounting statement. BUT that 
is so clumsy and complicated compared to the Gnome Ubuntu way. And if I want 
to set up new client computers guess what I have to choose to make life easy 
for "Joe average user"?

Any elegant way to sort this would be great. 

Cheers,
Sinclair