Re: [kde-linux] Connecting to a samba share at startup

On Tuesday 31 Jul 2007, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 00:23:06 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 30 Jul 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 30 Jul 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
Hmm - I have

//borg/anne /mnt/Samba-Home smbfs
username=anne,password=mypasswd 0 0

but it didn't work. What did I get wrong?

This is most odd. During kde startup I was told that access was denied
to my samba home. On starting kontact I got an access denied, as well.
In konqueror I saw my borg home directory listed. When I went back to
it a moment later not only was it not listed, but the mount point had
disappeared.

Totally weird.

Still more weird - I now have an icon for the networked folder. Clicking
on it opens a window labelled 'media:/anne' but anne doesn't show in the
navigator panel list, either under mnt or media. Opening Calendar in
kontact still tells me that access is denied, yet my remote calendar is
displayed.

Anne

Hi Anne,

The accessing a samba share via the media:/ location does not actually
mount it on your machine. It uses the samba kio module to access the share.

Your problem sounds like a permission one. Indeed I forgot to tell you that
you'd have to instruct mount to do the mounting so that your ordinary user
can have full access to the share.

As John pointed out, you have to modify the fstab entry, adding the options
like this:

//borg/anne /mnt/Samba-Home smbfs
username=myname,password=mypass,uid=USER,gid=GROUP 0 0

(Again, the above is a single line.)

Substitute USER and GROUP with your username and primary group on the
client machine. I don't think you'll need to specify any more advanced
options, but feel free to take a look at those. You can find those in the
smbmount's man page.

Just a note: I see you are trying to mount the share in /mnt. Did you set
your home directory as this in /etc/passwd? You could as well mount it
directly in /home/anne.

Best regards!

Hi, John and Boyan. I understand the comments about having username and
password in fstab - I'll attend to it, and come back if I have any questions
on that.

What is really puzzling me is that I get a desktop icon for the remote home
directory, and all my files are listed, yet kontact tells me that it cannot
access that directory. If I use the kde network folder icon to mount a share
and keep it open everything works fine. To blur the issue even more, my
laptop has the same version of Mandriva, of kde, and of kontact, and doesn't
have this issue.

Accessing the home directory from the desktop icon does not require any
further username or password. Accessing it from the Network Folders icon
asks for both, even if I have an open konqueror in the share from the desktop
icon.

It occurs to me that one thing I haven't tried is setting the kontact
requirement to a fish: command instead of a smb: one.

Anne

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