QtDragon GUI

Hi all,

I've just had a brief intro to qtdragon GUI - looks nice.

However, File menu - it doesn't have an address bar, nor does it keep it's last location. All my job files are on a network drive, and can't get to them...

Anyone have solution?

Kind regards
Pedro
 

I know nothing about network drives. How do you address to them generally?

PedroSMS wrote:

However, File menu - it doesn't have an address bar, nor does it keep it's last location. All my job files are on a network drive, and can't get to them...

Anyone have solution?

 

I don't know about address bar or if it keeps location, accessing network drives has nothing to do with that. Network drives work like everywhere else in linux, so if you can mount the drive somewhere it will be accessible. I use nfs to push NC files to the CNC machines.

Thank you for your reply @rmu

I'm not an expert with debian.

However, linux doesn't normally automatically mount samba shares.

I know that some samba shares can be configured through the samba.conf file, but those arrangements are too rigid for my purposes.

I would prefer to enter the address "smb://ip_address//share_folder" into an address bar.

And, if that address bar could retain its last location, that would be very handy for me.

Kind regards
Pedro

I would advise against opening NC files directly from network drives. Linuxcnc opens and closes the file multiple times and unexpected things may happen if the network drive suddenly becomes unavailable. Windows used to do evil things with network shares with even short disconnections of what windows thinks is the physical link.

smb:// stuff in address bars usually is some functionality of a desktop environment that copies files to some temporary location and opens that.

IMO the better solution is to push nc files to the linuxcnc machine, e.g. via NFS, SMB, SSH or use a synchronised folder (syncthing, available for all major platforms except ios).

if seems network drives are disabled in pyqt5 for some reason:
stackoverflow.com/questions/42997657/pyq...show-network-folders

maybe the one ugly workaround works?

I use WinSCP to move my files from the directory my .ngc files are posted to, to the nc_files directory on my LinuxCNC machine. I also use WinSCP to backup my linuxcnc directory to a shared folder on my NAS. There are many other similar tools. CoreFTP, Filezilla, etc. You just need to install OpenSSH on the Linux box.

I do similar. I used SAMBA and have allowed sharing of users home directory.
Its tricky to get Windows to connect as there are some policies that must be changed at the Windows end.
I have mapped my home folder to a Windows shared drive.
I just generate my gcode directly into the ncfiles folder from F360 on Windows