Problem using Thunar with smbfs

[Bob Snyder]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Bob Snyder wrote:
>   
>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Bob Snyder wrote:
>>>  
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>>>       
>>>> I am trying to use Thunar to move/delete files that have been mounted 
>>>> with smbfs (I'm using slackware 10.2, Xfce 4.2.2, Thunar 0.3.0 beta1).   
>>>> The file's context box has the cut, delete, and rename selections grayed 
>>>> out as if I don't have write permission. However, I am able to do these 
>>>> same operations from a shell as the same ordinary user. Also, from the 
>>>> Properties->Permissions tab, the 'Group' button is blank, and pushing it 
>>>> does not drop down a list of groups. I would have read/write permissions 
>>>> through the group affiliation.
>>>>
>>>> I have played with the uid and gid options to smbmount with no effect.
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> That's already fixed in SVN.
>>>       
>> Thanks for the response Benny. I am having trouble building it from SVN. 
>> When I built 0.3.0 beta 1 a while back I had no problems.
>>
>> When I ran autogen.sh on the svn checkout, it said I didn't have 
>> xfce4-dev-tools so checked that out from SVN and built and installed it 
>> with no problems.
>>
>> I then re-ran autogen.sh, and it complained:
>>
>>  >configure.in:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
>>  >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>  >      See the Autoconf documentation.
>>
>> Not knowing what I am doing, I went ahead and ran configure which 
>> complained about not finding the exo-0.3 package. I re-ran configure 
>> with PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and it ran without further 
>> errors.
>>
>> Then when I ran make I got this:
>>
>> Makefile:903: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>>
>> Line 903 of the Makefile has only this:
>>
>> @INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE@
>>
>> I'm stumped now. Something wrong with intltool, but not sure what to do.
>>     
>
> You need to install the intltool package (which esp. includes
> intltool.m4 for AC_PROG_INTLTOOL). If you have intltool installed, but
> AC_PROG_INTLTOOL is still not found, search for intltool.m4 and add the
> directory where the file is found to ACLOCAL_FLAGS, i.e.
>
>  export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I <the-directory $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"

This has fixed my problem building, and also fixed my original problem 
with smbfs.

Many thanks Benedikt! One of the greatest things about Xfce is the 
access to and willingness of the developers to help with problems like this.

Best regards,

Bob S.