kde and samba shares. How to mount them?

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From Konqueror/Dolphin is possible to access samba shares. If your computer is joined to a Active Directory domain and you use a domain user, you can access samba shares with smb://server.domain/share and you are not ask for user/pass (you use a kerberos tiquet).

Kde programs as Amarok, K3b, … can access files in samba shares without problem. But other programs, specially gnome programs (including the popular OpenOffice), are unable to use files in a samba share.
If instead of using Konqueror/dolphin you use Nautilus, there is no problem because it maps the share to a local folder ($HOME/.gvfs/share in sever/) and the program are able to access files in samba shares without problems as the folder is mounted locally (as if you use cifs.mount).
Its a problem to use konqueror/dolphin and have to change to nautilus to access samba shares…
If you use Windows you can mount it in an easy way. That’s what I try to do from konqueror, not having to open a konsole and be able to mount the share in an easy way.
I’ve tried with smb4k, but is has not worked for me (tried in 2 OpenSuse 11.3 and 1 opensuse 11.2).
What Nautilus does when accessing a samba shares like smb://server.domain.dom/share is to execute the command:
gvfs-mount smb://computer.domain.dom/share
and the share is mounted in
$HOME/.gvfs/share in server/

What I try is to do the same, but just form Konqueror/Dolphin. I’d like to add a button to Konqueror/dolphin that pressing the button and if the URL points to a samba share, the share is mounted in $HOME/LocalNetwork/server/share.
As I say, it can be as easy as executing the gvfs-mount, but don’t know how.

Can any give me any help?

Thanks

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Follow the instructions for permanent mounts.

Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 11 plus FAQs

The only problem is that if for any reason the shared drive gets disconnected and reconnected, the share does not reconnect automatically like in windows. I have not been able to fix that. Also, if the share is not available at boot time, then it does not work.

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Finally I use a script which:

  • Adds an action to Konqueror/Dolphin for mounting/unmounting the share.
  • Mounts the share with gvfs-mount.
  • Creates a link to $HOME/Resources.
  • Maintains the mount between session.

Not a good solution, but a least, works until I find a better solution.

What I try to do is detailed (in Spanish and only tried with OpenSuse 11.3 in SPANISH):

Thanks