This is a problem I've had forever with Ubuntu, since 12.04. I am now using 16.04. The drive is at my work and I mount it from home using Cisco anyconnect vpn. I use cifs mount in fstab to easily mount it. Here is my fstab entry
Code:
//file/location /media/marcus/place cifs users,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/place/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,noauto,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700 0 0
First of all, browsing the mount is slow in nautilus, and it seems to do a lot better in Thunar, but that's not what this post is about. When transferring a number of files using a drag and drop in both nautilus and Thunar, the transfer freezes and I need to kill the process. Using the terminal and the mv command works. What is going on with the drag and drop failing?
I don't think it has anything to do with Cisco anyconnect because I recall these problems when transferring files on a local network. The problem is more common with very slow connections. The slower the connection, the more likely the problem will occur. Command line file transfers pretty much never fail.
Another thing to note, when connecting to the mount using the standard Ubuntu dialogue, the drag and drop method works and browsing the shares is smoother. The method uses smb directly in the nautilus browser. see following syntax
Code:
smb://file/location/
The smb connection is what I will use for now, but it would be nice to get the fstab cifs mount working so I don't have to type a password. I'm the type of lazy who doesn't want to type a password for 5 seconds but will spend an exorbitant amount of energy trying to figure how to not type my password
EDIT: I just tried drag and drop using dolphin file browser, and it worked. What is the difference between these file explorers? Dolphin is not as pretty, I'd like to use nautilus...