Feature changed by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Feature #307746, revision 3 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 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. 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. + Discussion: + #1: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) (2012-04-29 10:49:26) + I support this request. Syncing folders etc. does not work via smb:// + and thus an fstab entry is needed. The UI should ease the setting-up + regarding no-auto in case the user wants to mount via the DE's file + manager, credentials etc. + The product should be changed to 12.2. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307746