We installed the ubuntu-desktop on an ubuntu server installation and added gvfs-fuse and gvfs-backends.
I can now mount a smb share using gio mount or from nautilus.
The mount works, but it is only avaialble on /run/user/xxx/gvfs/ and I know they should also become available in ~/.gvfs/.
I then read from [Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user/<login>/gvfs? that I should run:
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse ~/.gvfs this didn't work, since ~/.gvfs didn't exist. After creating the directory it works for me.
For new users on this machine I want to make sure that it works "out-of-the-box". I hoped that maybe this was all cause by my user existing before I installed the packages. But alas, I created a test user and it had to go through the same steps.
How can I make sure that new users do not have to go through the same steps?
~/.gvfs/" - where did you get that information? AFAIK that's something you would need to make happen yourself - for example by symlinking as described here: Where can I find the mount point for SMB shares in 13.04? – steeldriver Jun 05 '19 at 14:35