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Mounting password protected shares in KDE

usx

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 12:26pm

Mounting password protected shares in KDE

Do you know how to mount a password protected share by just clicking on its icon on the desktop. I have the sahres already added in /etc/fstab so I am capable of mounting them using mount /mnt/share/directory and typing the password on the console. Nevertheless I would prefer to be able to mount them by just clicking on the icon on my desktop and KDE ask me for user/pass pair.

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 9:32pm

In the properties of the desktop icon there should be a field where the specific command to be executed on click in entered. The command is probably something like 'kfmclient openProfile filemanagement /mnt/protected/share'. If you change the command to 'mount /mnt/protected/share ; kfmclient openProfile filemanagement /mnt/protected/share' then it should pop-up a window on click asking for the password.
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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 10:41am

I would prefer to use the icons that are created by KDE not a customly created link.
Those can be found: Right click on desktop -> Configure Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons

I have set up the default smb share username/password in the KDE Internet & Network preferences but apparently KDE does not use them.

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 8:59pm

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I would prefer to use the icons that are created by KDE not a customly created link.

All icons are custom links. Thats what they are for.
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