a most annoying difference between Ubuntu Gnome & Kubuntu

[O. Sinclair]

Mounting the share works fine for ME. Problem is that when you use the "nice
graphical interfaces" they never show CIFS as an option but only SMB - and
smb does not work in this context, you can't even mount proper. Windows2003
Server is a much "tougher cookie" to work with than other window fileshare
servers.

Sinclair

On 28/07/06, Freddie Cash <fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
>
> On Wed, July 26, 2006 8:40 am, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > And still - as stated initially; Joe Average should not have to
> > fiddle with etc/fstab or other tricks to simply access files on a
> > share. Thats where the beauty of the Gnome VFS and Keyring lies. It
> > just works. Note that I am a Kubuntu-user myself but stuff like that
> > makes me lean towards trying Gnome. HATE Evolution though and love
> > Kontact. Maybe I can run Kontact under
> > Gnome....
>
> How do you access files on Windows shares when working on a Windows
> station?  There are two methods:
>   - open Network Neighbourhood and browse around until you find the
> server, find the directory, find the file, then double-click on the
> file.  A login box pops up and you enter the username/password for
> that share on that server.  The password is cached for awhile, but
> you may need to re-enter it when opening other files.  Very
> cumbersome, and not very fast.  Files can't easily be opened via
> Open/Save dialogs.
>   - open Windows Explorer and map the share to a drive letter so that
> you can access all files on there from any Open/Save dialog or Run
> box.
>
> So, if you need to a map a share to a drive letter in Windows, why do
> you think it's "too much work" to map a share in Linux?
>
> Just mount the Windows share to a directory on your Linux system and
> access the files the same way you would any other file on your system.
> This is also guaranteed to work with *every* application on your
> system, regardless of whether its a GTK, GNOME, KDE, X11, CLI,
> whatever.
>
> You can mount SMB/CIFS shares as a normal user as long as you mount to
> a directory that you own.
>
> KDE and GNOME both provide nice graphical methods for mounting shares,
> or you can do at the CLI.  You can even put it into a dot-file so that
> the share gets mounted automatically when you login.
>
> Why are you trying to make this more complicated by using
> GNOME-specific or KDE-specific methods using VFS/KIO?  Just mount the
> damn share and be done with it.
>
>
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> fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca
>
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