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

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 01 Aug 2007, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
>
> 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.

It is caused by the fstab entry.  Yes, I understand why it doesn't ask for 
username and password.  What I don't understand is why kontact can't use that 
connection, but has to ask again unless I have open a session through the kde 
web applet (which required both to be given).
>
> How are you telling kontact to use your remote home directory? Is this some
> option there or you are redirecting some symlinks?
>
My addressbook and diary are in remote files - on the server.  I have done it 
this way for several years now, and this is the first time I've hit this 
particular problem.

> 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? 

I'm not sure what you're asking there, Boyan.

> Also of 
> "ls -lad /mnt/Samba-Home" or whatever your mount point is. 

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug  1 08:20 /mnt/Samba-Home/

> Note the "d" 
> option that will list only the directory itself and not its contents. I
> just want to see the permissions...

I'll remember that - very useful.
>
> Also compare this output with the same on your laptop.
>
I don't mount it, as such, on the laptop.  I just access it in Kontact as a 
remote addressbook and diary.

> 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.
>
As far as I can tell, Mandriva isn't using cifs yet.

Let me know what else you want to see.

Anne
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