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

[Boyan Tabakov]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 21:05:56 Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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

Hi Anne,

What exactly is this desktop icon for the remote home directory? Did it appear 
because of the fstab entry or did you set it up manually? I never use desktop 
icons (like the place clean:) ) and I am not familiar with automatically 
generated ones, but if it is there because of the fstab entry, than it is 
understandable why you are not asked for username/password - these are 
already in fstab.

How are you telling kontact to use your remote home directory? Is this some 
option there or you are redirecting some symlinks?

I like to see things that happen under the hood:) so would you please post the 
output of the mount command just after you've logged in to KDE? Also 
of "ls -lad /mnt/Samba-Home" or whatever your mount point is. Note the "d" 
option that will list only the directory itself and not its contents. I just 
want to see the permissions...

Also compare this output with the same on your laptop.

Samba should be able to serve symbolic links if the "unix extensions" (cifs 
extensions as defined by HP, states the man page) is set to "yes" in the 
smb.conf file and ofcourse, if the client is also cifs aware.

Best regards!

-- 
Blade hails you...

Once I wished for this night
Faith brought me here 
It's time to cut the rope and fly
                      --Nightwish
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