Nautilus shares

[pcbsd64]

I just installed PCBSD 9.0 with only the scrotwm selected. I realize that it was in the unsupported desktops category, and I am kind of on my own with trying to make my system work the way I want it to, but there must be a way short of installing the Gnome desktop to get Nautilus to access network shares. I added Samba from the Services category in System Packages and System Services show it enabled and running.

I've tried Smb4k and Jags from the Apps Cafe, but neither found any workgroups.

[FreeMWP]

You can install Gnome from the System manager http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/System_Manager. I had problems my self getting shares to work in nautilus, but found out that I had to play with the buildin firewall http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Firewall_Manager.

[pcbsd64]

Thanks FreeMWP, but I really don't want to install the Gnome desktop. I just don't like using it and prefer tiling window managers.

I found this FreeBSD forum post with info on firewall ports that samba uses and it helped me get Smb4k working.

Still can't mount shares, but now I can see them. I think its a permissions issue.

[FreeMWP]

If you don't want to install Gnome but want to have a filemanager that supports smb, I suggest you install thunar from AppCafe. Maybe that also fix your mount problem.

[pcbsd64]

I tried that and PCmanFM as well, neither of them have a "Network" icon like Nautilus does.

[drulavigne]

Unfortunately Nautilus is so tied into GNOME it is not worth creating a separate PBI for it (as it needs so much GNOME stuff).

[pcbsd64]

I can't install Nautilus without pulling in the complete Gnome desktop on the openSUSE half of my hard drive, either.

What does work for Samba on openSUSE is Gigolo, an GIO/gvfs app for linux.

It hasn't been ported to FreeBSD yet, that I am aware of, and would make a useful PBI if I can successfully make it a port.

[drulavigne]

The Gigolo website appears to be down. If it comes back up, I'll make a port request for it.

[pcbsd64]

Thank you drulavigne. I downloaded the gigolo source tarball yesterday and learned that it uses WAF to build and install.
I, installed /usr/ports/devel/py-waf (I know that is discouraged by the author), built and installed Gigolo. It doesn't yet work using Scrotwm.

It took years and cost millions of lives, but I installed the Gnome desktop and Gigolo works fine using Gnome.

In linux, desktop environments like Gnome run *.desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart at login.

• at-spi-registryd.desktop
  evolution-alarm-notify.desktop
  gnome-at-session.desktop
  gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop
  gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop
  gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
  gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop
  gnome-power-manager.desktop
  gnome-screensaver.desktop
  gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
  gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop
  gsettings-data-convert.desktop
  polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
  print-applet.desktop
  pulseaudio-kde.desktop
  pulseaudio.desktop
  vino-server.desktop

These files are also loaded automatically when using GDM to log into other window managers like Scrotwm, or can loaded by an command entry in ~/.xinitrc, when using another display manager.

I'm not sure how to load the necessary files in FreeBSD. GDM uses ~/.xsession so maybe adding command to run them in there would work and it might be possible to run Gigolo in Scrotwm. It would make a useful port and PBI either way.

[pcbsd64]

I was able to use the Smb4K PBI to manually mount samba shares. The bookmark feature doesn't seem to work, but if I re-enter the manual mount info everytime it works.