Feature changed by: Christoph Singer (xpuc) Feature #307746, revision 2 - Title: Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/CIFS-shares + Title: Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/Windows/CIFS-shares openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alex Müller (larx) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: At the moment there is no working Yast2-module to simply mount remote SAMBA/CIFS shares the "unix way" (i.e. with a directory entry in the filesystem a la "/network/sharename/"). - (yast2-samba-client seems to offer this as "expert option", however I + (yast2-samba-client seems to offer this as "expert option", however I don't get it to work.) The different desktop environments offer access with the "smb:/"- protocol, however this doesn't work really consistently. E.g. it doesn't help with consoles and scripts, and even some desktop apps, - namely KDE's own Amarok, refuse to use the smb:/-protocol. + namely KDE's own Amarok, refuse to use the smb:/-protocol. + More annoying examples (added by xpuc): it's not possible to edit + office documents on a remote share using OpenOffice, and Gwenview is + not able to browse images in a remote folder. So I think a Yast2-module - which should be simple to do, as it would - only be a frontend to /etc/fstab or /etc/samba/smbfstab - to - mount SAMBA shares should be implemented. + only be a frontend to /etc/fstab or /etc/samba/smbfstab - to mount + SAMBA shares should be implemented. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307746