Protocol-specific mount flags for nautilus

[Dariusz Gadomski]

Hello everyone,

I am dealing with the following usecase: a user who extensively utilizes
ACLs needs access to a number of smb shares. He accesses them via nautilus.
The problem is that by default nautilus doesn't use any mount flags that
could be useful in this case (i.e. user_xattr,acl) preventing execution of
any ACL rules. The needed options would always be the same for the same
kind of a share.

There is a bug regarding this problem [1], but the outcome was that the UI
for this would be to complicated to cover all possible options.

My idea is to somehow store the raw mount options (as an ENV variable or a
gsettings key) for a specific protocol (smb in this case) and use those
options for the given type of share whenever needed.

I would highly appreciate any hints of what should I consider when
implementing such change. Do you see any risks or unwanted consequences of
this approach?

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585423

Thanks,
Dariusz
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