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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.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.  Gigolo uses gvfs-mount as in ( gvfs-mount smb:// ) which results in unwieldy mount points. You will get a mount point that looks like ) /run/user/your-user-name/gvfs/smb-share:server=host_name,share=share_name ) and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
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