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Idea #2778: Easy mounting of Network Drives

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #403: Improve file/folder sharing experience (Samba).
Written by TuxyLord the 3 Mar 08 at 16:16. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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mounting of network drives like samba shares in an easy way like in windows, that would be fine.
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Written by TuxyLord the 3 Mar 08 at 16:16.
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spec Blueprint easy-file-sharing: Ubuntu
forum Ubuntuforums.org thread #702705


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geefour wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:23
I agree - I just got my LanDrive's firmware updated so I can actually use it but, I can't be bothered editing /etc/fstab!

Sai wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:02
How about a front-end to mount -t smbfs \\ip
with a nautilus-ish interface?

muecker wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:25
You can already do it using Places->Connect to server, but I would like to see it better integrated.

HOLOGRAPHICpizza wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:27
Yeah it would be great to be able to browse the network within Nautilus.

johan wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:41
"Connect to server" probably covers just what you guys want. When connected through, say SSH, it show up as a folder in nautilus and on your desktop. Better integration is a must though.

deadowl wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:25
Things that bother me about "Connect to server":

It doesn't let the server handle pointing to my home folder (on the server). Further, it doesn't let me change the folder it loads to on the server. While this is interesting as otherwise I would have never discovered the severity in the decline of CS students in my college while looking for my home folder, it's just a pain.

It doesn't let me change the "Name to use for connection."

In fact, it's not easy to change any mounted network drive.

maybeway36 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:39
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=702705

travis wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 00:48
It'd be nice to have an easy way to reconnect them after rebooting as well.

ict4ngo wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 04:40
most definitively a good idea. Being able to choose where it is mounted from and where it is mounted to would be great.

elendrim wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 10:23
See fusesmb for your distrib. Really easy to use.
http://www.ricardis.tudelft.nl/~vincent/fusesmb/

jedie wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 11:13
add a GUI for fusesmb!

YokoZar (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 12:13
This was discussed at UDS Boston: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/easy-file-sharing

maybeway36 wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 21:47
fusesmb is probably the way to go, seeing how this is going to most often be used (sharing personal files or music.)


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