My specific use case is for a samba drive; but, would appreciate if the solution is generic and works with dolphin. I know how to access a samba drive through the Network or address bar tab; however, when I connect, it does not mount the drive to anywhere. I need it to be mounted, since I need to access the drive through other file-pickers who do not recognize the dolphin’s way. I need to do this mounting with standard user privileges (no sudo). I have root access to the machine and can install packages; but, would like to mount with user permissions if possible. Does something exist on dolphin or a cli tool for my use case, or should I just install another file manger alongside dolphin?
This is a general Linux thing, but you would need to manually mount the share using your /etc/fstab file. This should not be very difficult, and there are gobs of tutorials and posts everywhere on this. A different file manager either won’t have this functionality, or ( I believe) it will work in the same sort of way that it does in Dolphin (in the Network section) and not really be mounted in the sense that you want.
You might try looking at the program Smb4k, which I think is still around. I can’t say if it is working well for managing SMB shares, but the last time I tried it, it was broken in many places., and did not work at all for me. It has been a while, though.