Can you open a Dolphin Superuser, unmount the folder, open a normal Dolphin and then try to mount it by clicking on it?
Dolphin in superuser mode works as expected, but if I then unmount it, close Dolphin, and attempt to access it via the regular user mode Dolphin ‘Remote’ shortcut it will fail. Other user access methods (as I already described) work fine.
Remote shortcut it will fail
Exactly! And THIS is the problem. I want it to mount it as a standard user, not root. I want to open Dolphin, click on the remote folder, have it mounted on such demand and have access to its contents to be able to do backup. Like in windows when you map a remote folder, you don’t have to be an admin to do that.
Other access methods work for direct Dolphin file manager copy/paste/delete but they don’t work for rsync backup.
I guess we can put a full stop here as another confirmation that nothing’s changed since other users had the same problems and it remains the same, the fact is only root can mount remote folders in openSUSE. It’s a frustrating inconvenience, but ok, it’s not the end of the world.
Yes, but I’ve pointed out that it only appears to fail when trying to access that particular way. It does work if you just add the shortcut to the mount point as a ‘Places’ shortcut, and then access it that way (or navigate to the mount point manually in dolphin).
I want to open Dolphin, click on the remote folder, have it mounted on such demand and have access to its contents to be able to do backup. Like in windows when you map a remote folder, you don’t have to be an admin to do that.
See above (and my earlier posts).
There is no need for user-mounting though. The auto-mounting DOES work even when user initiated as I already demonstrated.
It does work if you just add the shortcut to the mount point as a ‘Places’ shortcut, and then access it that way (or navigate to the mount point manually in dolphin)
No it does not, it does NOT work that way. Clicking on the Places (/mnt/dataserver) shows an empty folder if it has not been mounted yet by clicking on the Remote shortcut, clicking on the Remote shortcut fails saying only root can do that.
If I click on the Remote as a root first, then go to the Places shortcut - all is working fine.
Ok, something else must be at play for you. For me, it is largely working as expected.
hi, I uase luckybackup to make my backups.
in my experience luckybackup works well only as root, as user il lacks to copy and delete folders, so I suggest you to use it as superuse mode.
I use this command to mount sftp and smb foldes:
in also execute before
sshfs root@192.168.1.2:/ /home/pla/server/ -o allow_root
in also execute after
umount /home/pla/server
and it woeks, this for smb is a lot that I don’t use so it worked in the past but now I don’t know
in also execute before
mount.cifs //192.168.1.2/abbaino/FOTO-x-amici/ /deposito -o credentials=/home/pla/mountfoto,sec=ntlm
in also execute after
umount /deposito
ciao 
Well, you know what?.. It started mounting the remote folder as a non-root user after I rebooted the computer. Having used openSUSE for so long I forgot I had to reboot it sometimes for some things to take effect. ****, why didn’t that occur to me 2 days ago? )))))
Anyway, thank you all for your suggestions, the following fstab works pretty well now:
//dataserver/Data\040Server /mnt/dataserver cifs credentials=/home/linuxoid/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,iocharset=utf8,_netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,x-systemd.idle-timeout=10min 0 0
I have 3 entries in Dolphin:
- 'Places' Data Server: /mnt/dataserver (I added this, need this for Lucky Backup)
- 'Remote' Data Server: smb://dataserver/Data Server (I added this, for general file stuff, doesn't mount anything)
- 'Remote' Data Server:/mnt/dataserver on dataserver (automatically added by system)
So after booting up I open Dolphin and it shows the ‘Remote’ Data Server:/mnt/dataserver on dataserver as NOT mounted. I click the ‘Places’ Data Server, it mounts the remote folder and opens it with all its contents.
Excellent!
And as to Lucky Backup, using it as non-root works just fine for me as I’m not deleting or creating any system folders, the only stuff I back up and sync is in the /mnt folders which I have right for as a dataserver group user. All is great!
Thanks all again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Stay safe!
No sure. I would have assumed you had done that during the course of changes and testing. Anyway, restarting the .automount unit file might have been sufficient following any changes…
systemctl list-units --type=automount
then restart the pertinent systemd automount as required.
Anyway, thank you all for your suggestions, the following fstab works pretty well now:
//dataserver/Data\040Server /mnt/dataserver cifs credentials=/home/linuxoid/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,iocharset=utf8,_netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,x-systemd.idle-timeout=10min 0 0
I have 3 entries in Dolphin:
- ‘Places’ Data Server: /mnt/dataserver (I added this, need this for Lucky Backup)
- ‘Remote’ Data Server: smb://dataserver/Data Server (I added this, for general file stuff, doesn’t mount anything)
- ‘Remote’ Data Server:/mnt/dataserver on dataserver (automatically added by system)
So after booting up I open Dolphin and it shows the ‘Remote’ Data Server:/mnt/dataserver on dataserver as NOT mounted. I click the ‘Places’ Data Server, it mounts the remote folder and opens it with all its contents.
Excellent!
Well done with persevering. That reflects my testing/approach too.
And as to Lucky Backup, using it as non-root works just fine for me as I’m not deleting or creating any system folders, the only stuff I back up and sync is in the /mnt folders which I have right for as a dataserver group user. All is great!
Thanks all again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Stay safe![/QUOTE]
Merry Christmas to you as well. 