I’m looking for a way in Plasma to backup and sync my data from PC to a LAN Samba share on my NAS, using a GUI program.

The many sync apps (Grsync, Unison, Lucky, RealTime, Kup etc.) I’ve tried over many years, don’t let me set a remote/samba target. Most navigate locally only. I would mount the share, but nobody I’ve found knows of a GUI way to permanently mount it.

Everything else I need on Plasma has a GUI solution. Just a sync fails. I’d be grateful to hear of a GUI solution

  • Kloud
    0•9 months ago

    @ian
    Yes, but doing it in terminal doesn’t require any obscure commands, it will guide you through and ask questions for everything

    • @ian@feddit.ukOP
      1•9 months ago

      The terminal is obscure in itself. I’m not sure how to start it or what commands to use.

      • Kloud
        0•9 months ago

        @ian
        There is a button in the gui to add a remote which opens a terminal which asks you for stuff

        • @ian@feddit.ukOP
          1•9 months ago

          Oh thats what that was. It looked like an error message. So I tried it. Horrible UX, and it did not have samba. I tried a few of the alternatives and it didn’t manage to connect.

          • Kloud
            0•9 months ago

            @ian
            Ah, I think it spawns xterm by default, which looks bad. And it has smb, does not have it for you?
            (It’s option 44 for me)

            • @ian@feddit.ukOP
              1•9 months ago

              Thanks I founf CIFS/smb on 35. It connected. Now trying to find out how to use the remote.