TIP: If Gigolo only offers "Custom Location"

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

If you run Xubuntu, connecting to remote filesystems is supported by using the Gigolo program. For me, on installs up to 11.04, this has worked out of the box, but with a clean install of 11.10 all Gigolo would offer me was a "Custom Location" (not much good if you want SSH / Samba-Windows / FTP / Obex / WebDav shares).

The problem is probably caused by gvfs-backends not being installed, so

sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends

and Gigolo should work properly.

Link to a more detailed page on getting network shares with Gigolo, nice work from user Kronalias

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...73&postcount=2

[Sionide]

Worked for me on Xubuntu 11.10 ( Gigolo 0.4.1 on a default install )