Re: Can't load images from remote directory

Posted by Albert Cardona on Mar 03, 2009; 3:54pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Can-t-load-images-from-remote-directory-tp3693495p3693498.html

Michael Doube wrote:

>> To make files work, mount the smb share into the file system
>> directly, instead of relying on KDE io slaves or on GNOME's virtual
>> file systems.
>>
>> See for example:
>> http://albert.rierol.net/ubuntu_tips.html#Mount%20a%20samba%20share%20in%20fstab 
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Albert, but your method requires saving a
> password in plaintext, and the needed password is my College-wide
> login...

The samba share may be mounted from a shell, without the -cifs parameters.

I know it's quite cumbersome. I don't work with samba shares so I never
bothered to support them in the drag and drop for linux. If you can find
documentation on how are they exactly setup on, say, Ubuntu gnome and
kde, at least we could support these.
 From my experience, documentation about desktop setups is very, very
hard to find.

Albert

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