Bug 259079

Summary: Feature request: Make dolphin use network shares as convenient as nautilus does
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Christof Kälin <ckpinguin>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christof Kälin 2010-12-07 09:38:09 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

I never used nautilus intensively, but today I tried it and after 10 seconds, I was able to use SMB shares of my company without much hassle. The handling is quite userfriendly (but it still can be made easier). The "connect to server" menu-entry is quite a good way for windows-users. It behaves like a mount, and 
you can "unmount" the share with a button-click on the left.
In dolphin, I find it very hard to use network shares without the network-browsing in dolphin (not everyone knows or likes to browse through the network). Some people know the name of the share, but don't want to type a "smb://xxxx" in the address line. They just want to "connect" to a share, as in ***dows. Of course, network shares work very well in Dolphin principally, this convenience-service should be doable on GUI-level only (maybe a function to unmount it by button-press is necessary).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:19:44 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-08-18 14:26:15 UTC 
We're definitely aware of these issues. This bug is too broad to be actionable so I nave to close it, but feel free to monitor any of the following frequently-reported issues:

- Browsing Samba workgroups is unreliable
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369850

- Can't share your whole home directory with Samba
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381301

- Dolphin doesn't prompt you to create a Samba password when necessary
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381688
-- Workaround: run `sudo smbpasswd -a <user>`

- Drag-and-drop doesn't work with Samba shares accessed through Dolphin
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373589

- Copying files to a Samba share resets their timestamp
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356651

- Can't open videos on Samba shares
-- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355328