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 <div>On 28/07/06, Freddie Cash <<a href="mailto:fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca">fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. ---- Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] <a href="mailto:fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca">fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca</a> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>