mount samba shares with Nautilus

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:33 +0000, knowtree at aloha.com wrote:
> Does anyone have a smooth way to mount samba shares in Nautilus?
> 
> On my workstation I have FreeBSD 4.11 STABLE, Nautilus 2.8.2. I have a
> panel on left side of screen with Disk Mounters for floppy and CD-ROM, all
> working. I tried to extend this settup to samba shares, but am stuck at
> needing root access.
> 
> This command, run as root, works fine:
> 
> mount -t smbfs //me at aserver/ashare /adir
> 
> me - username to connect as, known to samba on aserver
> 
> aserver - the NETBIOS name of the remote samba server
> 
> ashare - the share name on aserver, "me" has rw access
> 
> adir - a directory in the root of my workstation, which I own, group
> operator, perms 755.
> 
> It does prompt for a password, and I give it the password associated with
> "me" on the server.
> 
> Run as me (unprivleged) it gives this:
> 
> Warning: no cfg file(s) found.
> smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (default:tolower): syserr =
> Operation not permitted
> 
> The Nautilus disk mounter seems to want to find the mount point in
> /etc/fstab and use that to create a command line "mount themountpoint." So,
> even if I get the permissions worked out, how would I handle the password?
> 
> I have also looked at the Network Servers window, but so far have been
> unsuccessful in connecting to any of my four samba servers. But even if I
> get that working, how can I connect via a panel icon?
> 
> Akk suggestions welcome.

There are still problems mounting smbfs file systems as a normal user.
I usually find it easier to use sudo for this.  That said, GNOME doesn't
need to mount the SMB share for you to access it.  You can build
gnomevfs2 with SMB support, and then connect to SMB shares as you would
in Windows.

Joe

> 
> Gary Dunn
> Honolulu
> 
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