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
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    011 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
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      111 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.

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        11 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
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          111 months ago

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