https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/nautilus/Recent content in Nautilus on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/nautilus_ubuntu_file_manager_and_bookmarks/Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/nautilus_ubuntu_file_manager_and_bookmarks/<p>In the very old days, the Ubuntu&rsquo;s file manager&rsquo;s bookmarks were stored directly as invisible file in the home folder ($HOME/.gtk-bookmarks). Since 14.04, they have been hiding two levels deep in $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks.And if you wonder where the Nautilus scripts are, they are nowadays at $HOME/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/.</p>https://jeltsch.org/en/passwordless/Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/passwordless/<p>I use cloud services at <a href="https://csc.fi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CSC&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> (e.g. pouta.csc.fi), and they do not allow SSH login with a traditional username/password combo. When I want to make a bookmark in my file manager (Nemo oder Nautilus/Files), pointing to this location. I need to specify an RSA key file that is used for the login. On the command line, it looks as follows:</p>https://jeltsch.org/en/mount_samba_shares_why_doesn_t_nautilus_work_and_making_smb_mounts_permanent/Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/mount_samba_shares_why_doesn_t_nautilus_work_and_making_smb_mounts_permanent/<p><strong>Mount Samba shares</strong>Apparently it is very easy to connectfrom within Nautilus to Windows computers (or rather to computers running smb services). The only thing you have to do is to type smb:/// into the URL bar and the network is browsed for available domains, workgroups and services. However when one tries to open some files (e.g. some image) there often appears the error message that those files cannot be accessed via samba.What to do? I figured that when you mount smb shares, that this works correctly. In order to mount my user directory on another computer this is the command:<code>sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=michael,password=here_goes_my_password //paula/michael /mnt/smb</code>paula is the netbios name of the other computer and michael is the name of the share.You can also set the owner of all the files of the mounted file system with the -o uid=owner option:<code>sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=michael,password=here_goes_my_password -o uid=500 //paula/michael /mnt/smb</code>If you don&rsquo;t want to type your password, you can save it in a file like this:<code>username=susannepassword=0sdf7b</code>and then you can refer to this &ldquo;credentials&rdquo; file:<code>sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=susanne,credentials=/home/susanne/.smbpasswd //patolmac217/susanne /mnt/smb</code>In order to unmount use:<code>sudo umount /mnt/smb</code>This mostly fails as you are likely to have some open windows/terminals that keep the connection active. Close them and try again. You also might try umount -f.<strong>Making smb mounts permanent</strong>When you mount an SMB share, it will be gone upon system restart. To make it mount automatically during system bootup, you have to create a new entry in the /etc/fstab file. In my case e.g.:<code>//paula/michael /mnt/smb smbfs credentials=/home/jeltsch/.smbpasswd 0 0</code>In the .smbpasswd file is my username and my password. Probably not very safe, but who cares? .smbpasswd should be anyway only readable by yourself!</p>