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Meanwhile my experience with automounting network drives with dolphin is
Open Dolphin > Add Network Folder > Enter creds > Check automount box > done
I haven't had to use the terminal for anything in years. There's some things I do in the terminal, but that's because I like it better, not because there isn't an intuitive way to do it.
The reason guides tell people to use the terminal is because it's the same across DEs, not because there aren't DEs that make it more intuitive.
Would I throw a random non techy friend on Linux? No, because it's not what they're used to. If they had no computer experience at all though I absolutely would.
No automount check box on openSUSE, my Linux OS.
Also, we're talking average users here, not some techy people who at least understand the differences between the OS and the file manager they use.
Ah yes, the average user who deals with mounting hard disk partitions all the time…
What DE do you use? KDE Partition Manager has a setting for it.
I use KDE!
I’ve looked into this before , so in all seriousness, what options would I choose to make it auto mount without asking for a password?
I see the box for no automatic mount, but I don’t see one that is for auto mounting? I’m assuming the don’t prevent boot… option is pretty self explanatory.
Yeah these were the default settings but it's what I would leave it at. I chose /mnt/data just for an example but that's not a bad spot for it either.
After clicking OK it asked if I wanted to let it modify fstab to allow auto mounting. So this should just accomplish what you're looking for I believe.
So, I looked into KDE PM, and I guess it would have been more helpful to explain that these drives were made on Windows, and has data that I can not afford to move into a new drive at this moment. So in the mean time I am trying to work between Windows and Linux when one doesn't do what I'm needing in the moment.
When I double click the ntfs partition in the window, it brings up a partition properties window. At the bottom of this window, I can see the flags section. One is "bios-grub" and the other is "boot". If I tick the boot option, will that make it auto mount?
if you want to access NTFS partitions on linux, you should turn off "fast startup" in windows. control panel, energy saving, "choose what the power button does" menu. (so intuitive, eh?)
when that's ticked in, it will always just hibernate the system after logging out, and that's a nono, and a big one if dualbooting (even just 2 windowses)
I appreciate you for trying, but my Windows has never had that option turned on. :(
that's weird, it's on by default. maybe on early versions of 10 it wasn't?