[Geany-Users] Geany doesn't work properly in guest account LM 18

[Lex Trotman]

On 18 October 2017 at 20:06,  <muetze.geany at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I'd like to give access to geany for users of an guest account on a Linux
> Mint 18.2 system. I did some modifications on the guest account following
> this link:
> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/2#TOC-Customize-the-frozen-Guest-session-guest-account-to-your-liking
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> The problem is I can't open existing files or save new files on a sambashare
> in my network with geany while in guest mode.
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Is the samba share mounted on the linux filesystem where your guest
account can see it?  Geany does not access anything outside the Linux
filesystem.

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> I can open and save them with other editors like Xed.
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Xed can open network locations directly without them being mounted.

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> No other applications I tested so far show similar behavior (oOffice, gimp,
> Xed).
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> I can open the progam and (temporary) save new files to the guest desktop.
> (Geany can open these file too.)

The guest desktop is in the Linux filesystem I presume.

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> Starting geany with geany -v  in terminal does not show any hints.
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> Geany works fine in normal user accounts.
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> Any ideas how to solve this?
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> I couldn't test the normal guest account of LM 18.2 so far.
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> Thanks for reading!
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