Problems with Kubuntu Edgy and SMB mounting

Wed Sep 27 17:04:00 UTC 2006

The following entry in /etc/fstab works for me on Dapper

//<server IP>/<share name>  /<mountpoint> smbfs 
users,auto,username=<username>,credentials=/home/<username>/.credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000 
0 0

and the .credentials file contains the following, and must be chmod 600

username=<username>
password=<password>

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[TLUG]: Problems with Kubuntu Edgy and SMB mounting

Well, the weekend install went surprisingly easily (for a distro I'd 
never really used much before) and I'm extremely happy with the result. 
There are just a couple of niggling things that I thought I'd ask about 
here before raising them as probloems or bugs. Some of these are as 
likely problems with my setup as bugs in Edgy. Reporting stuff is also 
better accepted is a solution can be offered :-).

1) The tiny icon for Thunderbird (the one that apprears on the KDE panel 
when it' s running, and shows in the upper left corner of the window 
running it) seems to be missing. The generic "X" shows isntead. This is 
wierd, because its KDE menu icon is fine, and the " compose mail" 
window open while I write this has a proper icon.

2) Also in Thunderbird. When I click on a URL in my mail it opens 
Konqueror rather than Firefox. I think I've looked everywhere to see 
where the association is made but obviously I' ve missed something.

3) I continue to have problems browsing and mounting Samba shares on a 
local server.

Thsi line in /etc/fstab is
//MYHOST/share    /home/myhost-share        smbfs 
username=evan,password=mypass,owner,user  0       0

It mounts fine at bootup, and `df`  shows
//MYHOST/share on /home/myhost-share type smbfs (rw)

Reading is no problem; writing requires root. Is this an etch problem or 
am I doing something wrong?  Under Mandriva, if I unmounted the shares 
as root and remounted them as non-root, I could write to them, which 
makes me think the problem is my config rather than Edgy.

3a) Not a single tool that I tried could properly browse the network and 
find the shares. What is the best tool in (K)ubuntu for browsing 
available shares and printers in an SMB network? (Of course, my lone 
Windows box on the network sees the server without a hitch).

As always, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

- Evan
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