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Linux CIFS Utils and Samba

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PROBLEMS - The problem with Gigolo is that it mounts shares using smb paths.  Linux application support for smb paths is mostly broken.  For this reason we are left with the problem of either exposing our password in the fstab file or using gigolo aka smb paths to access network shares and find a lot of applications can't reach the files.  Com'on devs!  This is CRAP.=== SMB Paths ===A gigolo mounted path uses the SMB share format, like: * smb://workgroup;username@192.168.100.110/share on 92.168.100.110Boy is that ugly with spaces and special characters.  An ugly path like that is just asking for trouble!  Programs, such as USB Image Writer (a common utility available with Linux Mint / Ubuntu) will not work with smb paths.  Try to read an ISO image from a network share, even after making a symlink to de-ugly the path, and the USB Image Writer application fails.
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