Problems with Kubuntu Edgy and SMB mounting

[E K]

Actually I like the sudo feature of Ubuntu. I also find Ubuntu server install minimal so it requires little hardening. I appreciate the fact that services such as samba and ssh do not install by default. More over, Ubuntu provides secure configuration files for PHP and Apache which can be downloaded. To me, Ubuntu server install is more secure than Fedora Core. However, for some reason, FC4 and FC5 dominate the dedicated server market.

I have been using Ubuntu with gnome. I think the smb problem that you are experiencing is similar to the one that I had. If you connect to smb share through "network servers" or "connect to server" you are not actually mounting the share onto the file system so you can not access it, say through OpenOffice file save/open. On Ubuntu, samba file system is not installed by default and you need to install samba client in order to be able to mount samba shares.

Hope that helps

EK

Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 12:42, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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 :-).
>
Before you make a final determination, I found the Ubuntu philosophy not to my 
liking and much prefer this distro,  Kanotix.  It uses the Debian 
repositories and I find them more up to date than Kubuntu. None of this sudo 
stuff for root,  have terminals run as root,  add admin mode apps to the K 
menu and so on.  

Kanotix.com

Cheerio

-- 
Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont. Can

Kanotix Linux  Ver 2005-4   
Desktop  KDE 3.5.1    KMail 1.2



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