Accessing smb share in blender (without making it permanent in fstab/without terminal)

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#1

Hi,

I need to access a smb mounted usb stick from blender.
The old solution to open a .blend from the smb in Blender and then using file open to see the source path does not work on manjaro (or I am doing something wrong). The folder (~/.cache/kioexec/krun/153702_0/) found by this method is just a cache, the files I put there are not going to the smb share.

In the past, the location could be found in /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server= but my gvfs folder is empty.

I guess it would work using

mount -t cifs -o username=netuser,password=hiddenword //IP-Address/…

but I would like to do it without terminal just by mounting the smb folder in dolphin and then somehow finding the correct path. I don’t want to make it permanent.

#2

Open the SMB share in the file manager, right click, open in terminal, then run pwd.

#3

“Open terminal here” is only available as root action.
pwd returns /root, this seems wrong and I can’t open it in Blender.

#4

I guess then it could be that the file manager doesn’t mount it anywhere.

#5

Okay, so I have to make it permanent.
Since it is a USB stick, it could happen that I plug a different one in the port, perhaps with different size or file system - if I mount such a different stick using the same fstab mount point in (if that is even possible), would there be problems like file/filesystem corruption?