[X2Go-User] Shared Folders, from Windows to Debian8

[Stefan Baur]

Am 24.01.2017 um 22:49 schrieb KARL A. WOELFER:
> Thanks for the quick reply Stefan,
> 
> My Windows 7 is running X2Go Client v 4.0.5.0 (Qt - 4.8.6)
> 
> 
> I am taking the defaults in Shared Folders (did not check the Automount box,
> 
> or the Filename Encoding box.
> 
> 
> Where will I expect to find the shared C:\Users\Karl ...  Windows folder
> I am sharing on the Linux side?


Well, if you don't check the automount box - nowhere until you mount them?
How you mount them manually depends on what checkboxes you checked under
Options/Settings/General.

1a) If you set X2GoClient to minimize into the system tray, then you
right-click that icon, select the session name, then "Share folder ...".

1b) If, instead, you have the X2GoClient window on your screen even with
an active connection, click on the small folder icon, that's the left of
the three icons "Folder, Pause, Power".

>From there, the steps are the same again for both variants.
2) Click the name of the share in the window that has opened now
3) Click the "share" button.

If you either performed these steps or had the automount box checked,
your mountpoint will be somewhere under ~/media/disk/, with a name
starting with _cygdrive_.


> My Windows laptop has a single-user authentication, whereas we use LDAP
> on Linux, is this a potential problem?

I do not believe so. The mount is performed by FUSE through a tunneled
SSH connection, with the Cygwin SSHD spawning on your client, so it's
your server connecting back to the client, using a temporary SSH key
pair, so there's no exchange of your individual password involved.

I'll try to come up with a HowTo with a few screenshots, but at present,
my only Windows machine that has a US-English GUI is busy spinning its
hourglass over the Windows Update window ... which is not surprising, as
this was the first time since Mid-2014 that I powered it up.

-Stefan

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