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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostI haven't used Samba in a while, but I don't see why it shouldn't allow you to do that. The NFS config window just helps edit /etc/fstab.
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Originally posted by bwat47 View PostAll I know is I spent hours dicking around with fstab in various distros and kept running into all kinds of problems, such as outdated documentation (for example I ran into this issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160047, at the time that workaround wasn't known so I ended up having to use a distro with an older kernel even to get it to work), and even when I could mount the share it would *only* mount/unmount as root no matter how much I tried to tweak it. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but it sure was a huge pain in the ass compared to the seamless gvfs integration other desktops have... KDE could really stand to improve in this area. Dealing with shares in dolphin is still a pain compared to nautilus or thunar.
Why do you need SMB shares, anyway? NFS is always much easier to set up.
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What he's referring to is that gvfs' approach to accessing Windows shares is to create a temporary mount point somewhere in $HOME and ask the kernel to use it, whereas KIO uses its own plugin using the userspace Samba client libraries. The consequence is that apps launched from the file manager need to be able to understand smb:// URLs (either via KIO or on their own), whereas gvfs hands out what are effectively local filesystem paths.
This isn't relevant for shares configured via fstab, but it is for users who don't want to do that and use apps not using KIO.Last edited by Sho_; 14 June 2013, 04:54 PM.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostWell, I get the argument for 4.10 but considering that 4.11 is supposed to be an ?LTS? release some Plasma widgets may actually get new feature releases before PW2 is ready for widespread consumption. Tweaking things like version support in BKO sounds to me like less work than to do a whole ?4.12? just because some QML Plasma applets have been updated and released possibly just released via GHNS.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostWell yea, that's my point – just have it configured in /etc/fstab.
Users shouldn't be expected to edit /etc/fstab for this kind of simple functionality. I expect to be able to mount/unmount my shares in the file manager on demand as a user, and anything else is not acceptable.
Dolphin/kde does not handle this "to the best of its ability", because handling it to the best of its ability would either be using gvfs or a gvfs solution to actually mount the shares on the fly so applications can actually use the files on the share. Dicking around with fstab for hours is not my definition of convenience or user friendliness.
I really like KDE but this is without a doubt a big issue IMO.Last edited by bwat47; 14 June 2013, 05:18 PM.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostAgain, I don't have much experience with SMB or gvfs, but using a GUI tool to configure fstab is really not hard. I don't see how you can mount a share without configuring anything - you still need to tell the system where the share is found and how to handle it...
You shouldn't have to use fstab to mount a share at a friend's house/client network.
If you have per user personal network drives, and multi users PCs, well, it doesn't scale well.
Yes, it is easy to configure fstab, and is ok enough for most cases.
No, it is not sufficient.
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Originally posted by erendorn View PostYou shouldn't have to be root to mount a network drive.
You shouldn't have to use fstab to mount a share at a friend's house/client network.
If you have per user personal network drives, and multi users PCs, well, it doesn't scale well.
Yes, it is easy to configure fstab, and is ok enough for most cases.
No, it is not sufficient.
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