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Idea #224: Better Mounting of Network Shares

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #403: Improve file/folder sharing experience (Samba).
Written by deejross the 28 Feb 08 at 21:39. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Places -> Connect to Server... only works for GNOME applications, and sometimes, it doesn't work at all. In order to stream media from a Samba share on another machine using something like VLC, you have to manually edit your /etc/fstab file to mount the Samba shares at boot. We should really have a way to do this easily, using a nice GUI application placed in the System -> Administration menu.

This would especially be useful if you had multiple user accounts and wanted them all to be able to access those shares automatically, without having to manually do it on a per-account basis.
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Written by deejross the 28 Feb 08 at 21:39.
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nick58b wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:38
There's a Hardy package for gvfs-fuse which appears to do this.

Shinobi326 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 07:20
This would be a huge improvement and something I definitely look forward to seeing one day. In fact, this is one of those things that a Windows -> Ubuntu user would expect to be a non-issue. I've spent hours trying to troubleshoot this issue. In fact, even today I still cannot write to my NAS drive. I can read and stream music just fine, but the network gods will not let me change anything on that share....grrr...

deejross wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:20
I've been doing a little searching around, and this annoyance is caused by Gnome-VFS, which is being replaced by GVFS and will be available (hopefully) in Hardy. This should also improve Gnome's handling of FTP, SSH, etc. Also of note, GVFS provides a tunnel through FUSE, which will allow non-Gnome applications to use the shares mounted by the new GVFS.

_ai_ wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:03
Dupe of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/48

:)

rawsausage wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:49
The next Gnome release will have new virtual fs layer that handles this. This idea is practically coming with the next release.

Paqman wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:56
Editing /etc/fstab for something as simple as mounting a network share is a problem. This kind of task is the kind of thing new users will want to do soon after installing.

Some other distros (eg: PCLOS) have this functionality already.

wolfier wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 03:33
That's good to know Gnome-VFS will be abandoned. I've always believed that the Gnome-VFS is a mistake since the beginning, unless it's integrated with a real Linux mountpoint.

Good riddance!


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