Originally Posted by
jerome1232
Actually those should be mounted by gvfs.
To access them as a normal folder browse to ~/.gvfs you should be able to find them in there.
Hello,
There's actually a better way to do this.
Basically 'connect to server' like you have done is OK if you want to browse files etc, but it doesn't really set it up as a 'drive' that the system can recognise.
If you have a network share that you'll be accessing all the time you really need to look at mounting it permanently.
Assuming the other machine is sharing a folder with Linux+Samba, or Windows XP file sharing, do this :
(1) Make a mount point called fred (change it to suit your needs) :
Code:
cd /media
sudo mkdir fred
sudo chown yourusername:yourgroupname fred
ls -l /media/
(2) Install smbfs :
Code:
sudo apt-get install smbfs
(3) Put the mount entries into /etc/fstab :
Code:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Put the following in there. Naturally you have to change :
- 192.168.1.1 to the remote computer's IP Address
- 'sharename' to the name of the shared folder on the remote computer
- /media/fred to the mount point you created in (1) above
- YOURUSERNAME/YOURPASSWORD to your username/password on the remote computer
- YOURUSERNAME/YOURGROUPNAME to your user/group name on the local machine
Code:
//192.168.1.1/sharedfolder /media/fred cifs auto,user=YOURUSERNAME,password=YOURPASSWORD,uid=YOURUSERNAME,gid=YOURGROUPNAME 0 0
(4) Try to mount it :
Then check it's mounted :
Hopefully you get something like this in there :
Code:
//192.168.1.1/sharename on /media/fred type cifs (rw,mand)
So now the device is mounted permanently, and you should be able to access everything as normal
Good luck!
Callan
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