I have a new install of openSUSE 12.2. Dropbox doesn’t work when I boot because I keep my Dropbox folders on another drive that is partitioned NTFS (so I can use the same folders from my winxp boot). When I first load into openSUSE, all my drives other than the installation drive are not accessible until I click on them and enter my password. Then I can use them (or relaunch dropbox and it works fine).
Could someone please tell me how I can get them to mount on startup without having to enter my password?
(I’ve tried changing settings in org.freedesktop.udisks.policy and also udisks2 (changing <allowactive> to yes), but these changes don’t seem to help.
As far as I know, the issue you describe is as much how the Windows PC is setup as is the Samba Setup. Using the global setting Security = Share and using a share that has been opened to all on the Windows users might work. Also, I prefer to browse to shares instead of mounting them every time. At least for a Windows PC, the password is not required until you actually need something off of the remote PC. In fact I am just not a big fan of remote mounting of shares with Samba. For a look at some things I do with Samba, have a look here:
What you want is to automount your windows partition on boot, so that Dropbox can automatically sync it. This means read/write access.
You can do this by inserting this line at the end of your /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2 /windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
replace the following:
/dev/sda2 by your windows partition.
/windows by an already existing folder. this is where the drive will mount to.
defaults means read/write access for everyone, which might be a security issue for you. You might want to look up “basic NTFS-3G options” for more specific permissions. Once this is done, reboot, and it should be mounted with read/write.
I think the 2nd response was the sort of thing I’m after, but it didn’t work. (I’m not trying to share the drives live, but only using them both from a dual boot; so I’m trying to avoid having Dropbox make 2 copies when one is fine – they’re on a physically separate drive formatted ntfs).
I’m not sure why the fstab changes didn’t do the trick, but when I boot in, Dropbox complains and Dolphin shows a “/” by each drive instead of the symbol that shows it is connected. When I click on any of the drives with the “/” symbol, it asks for the root password. After I enter it, I can access those drives until I reboot. I can relaunch Dropbox and it works with no problem. But it’s a little annoying to have to run through this routine each time I boot.
From what I learned googling for the answer, I suspect it’s a udisk issue, but I tried everything I saw posted and nothing worked.
When I first tried it, my session was saved in the old directories. When I made the fstab, I set up new mount points under /media/WinXPdrive and other such names. So when I booted in, Dolphin complained about not finding stuff and so did Dropbox, so I thought it didn’t work. The next time I logged in, I appreciated what had actually happened. Now I have 5 physical drives working (and all their partitions).
Thanks!
(I hope this post helps someone else, I was googling all over (and had tried some other things with modifying fstab that didn’t work). The udisk modifications didn’t work, so it was a tiring chase until you just gave me the simple fstab line, which got me to try it again (even though I thought I had tried fstab already). This time it worked. I’m not sure what I messed up last time–perhaps I also had a session saver illusion then too.
Thank you!
Can I ask a small followup?
Dolphin lists the drives on the left. Some have names that are useful to me like “WinXPdrive” some just say “40.0 GiB Hard Drive”. Is there a way I can get them all to have names I want? (they don’t seem to just name themselves after my mount points)