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leemgilbert
November 16th, 2009, 02:32 PM
I have connected to my Windows HTPC running W7.

I have mounted my drives but the drives show up as follows:

D:192.168.2.5
F:192.168.2.5

Obviously pretty meaningless.

As these are network drives, right mouse clicking the 'rename' option is greyed out.

Is there anyway to rename these network drives i.e. D:192.138.2.5 = Music

Thank you

Lee :D
dmizer
November 16th, 2009, 02:37 PM
Depending on how you "mounted" the drives, the names are probably configured on the Windows side of things.
leemgilbert
November 16th, 2009, 02:38 PM
Depending on how you "mounted" the drives, the names are probably configured on the Windows side of things.

Hey there, thank you for the speedy reply.

I SMB:\\192.168.2.5 and all my Win 7 shares are listed :)
dmizer
November 16th, 2009, 02:40 PM
Please see the 6th link in my sig. Then you will be able to access the share via: places > network, or: places > connect to server. Then you can name them what you like.
leemgilbert
November 16th, 2009, 02:45 PM
Please see the 6th link in my sig. Then you will be able to access the share via: places > network, or: places > connect to server. Then you can name them what you like.

I found your thread via Googling which is why I became a member on this forum. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar with the whole Linux scene I cannot get it working.

I'm as far as being able to see my HTPC (Win 7), but I get unable to mount.

I have turned the firewall off my PC. It does not even prompt me for a username/password like when I SMB:\\

Here is my thread here, but I have not tried the last suggestion yet.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327399

Thank you again :)
dmizer
November 16th, 2009, 02:54 PM
I found your thread via Googling which is why I became a member on this forum. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar with the whole Linux scene I cannot get it working.

I'm as far as being able to see my HTPC (Win 7), but I get unable to mount.

I have turned the firewall off my PC. It does not even prompt me for a username/password like when I SMB:\\

Here is my thread here, but I have not tried the last suggestion yet.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327399

Thank you again :)

Since this is a duplicate, I am closing this thread.

Thank you.