No "reconnect at next login" option for shares

Bug #388444 reported by Neil Broadley
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Nautilus
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One Hundred Papercuts
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gnome-mount
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gvfs
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Bug Description

When I map a drive in windows, I'm given the option to reconnect it at next login. When I do the same in Gnome, I'm given the option to create a bookmark, and I've even given the option to remember the password persistantly, but crucially, neither of these options actually reconnect the drive on next login. What I'm getting at is that until I actually click on my bookmark, or access the share some other way, there is no link in .gvfs, therefore programs looking there will fail until I manually start it.

Secondly, although I can symbolically link from .gvfs to my home directory manually, this is unintuitive - in fact, it's actually undiscoverable with internet search and beyond a non-technical user's remit. There should be an option when I'm creating the network share to specify where I'd like the share to appear.

This would completely (for me) remove the need to install autofs and jump through the various hoops required to get that service working.

This would allow NAS devices to be easily used as respositories of music for Rythmbox and other such applications that do not support smb:// file sharing.

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This is not a trivially fixable usability bug, but rather a new feature request; therefore, it is not a paper cut.

Scaine, this is a great idea. Try to identify the project that this change would be implemented in, and use "Also affects project" (below) to associate this report with that project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
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Neil Broadley (scaine) wrote :

Fair enough. I was hoping that since the connections result in a mapping in ~/.gvfs, it would be a simple matter of rewriting the Places/Connect to Server dialog to include these two options (reconnect and choose mount location).

I'm afraid I'm at a loss as to which project this could be assigned to. I'll look at the list and see what I can come up with. If anyone knows better, please help.

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