mounting network drive and placing icon permently on desktop
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mounting network drive and placing icon permently on desktop
Hi I have managed to get my networkdrive to mount on boot to a windoze share. however how can i get it to permently show the mounted icon on the users desktop?
Its so simple a thing that there must be an easy way to do it.
Thanks for any help
How about a sym-link to the directory you mount the FS on?
Code:
man ln
I am a complete NEWBE at all this,
I thought i had got the thing to auto allow the share, but now its asking for the default keyring to unlock, before allowing access.
I have to say windoze is a breeze comared to this, but I want to get my head around it......
I need a mapped drive to a share on a windoze box, permently mapped and on the users desktop. if anyone could please help a complete newbe, thanks
This is driving me nuts, how do I log onto the root?
how do i then open the fstab, for editing
samba cannot be installed on the machine...
there is a samba folder but not populated
I am using UBUNTU perhaps i should just go back to windoze?
This will install smbfs and populate /etc/samba with the smbfstab file.
You should be able to follow my previously posted procedure now.
When you precede a command with 'sudo' it runs it with root privs.
Good luck.
Ok thanks for your help, I have downloaded and run the samba, and checked it exists.
now for the //winhost/sharename....I assume this is my windows server name and the file share but the local/mountpoint?
and how do i set the username and password for this file share.
thanks again.
sorry just re read your text about passwords,,,,
however i get an enter password for default keyring to unlock when i try the drive error in
usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb
now for the //winhost/sharename....I assume this is my windows server name and the file share but the local/mountpoint?
Yes, you are correct, 'winhost' is the hostname of the Windows server that contains the share you would like to mount. And 'sharename' is the name of the share you would like to mount on said host.
The bit I've called '/local/mount/point' is a directory on your Ubuntu host where the Windows share will be mounted. You may want to:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/winhost
Then you can replace '/local/mount/point' with '/mnt/winhost'.
This is the place on your file-system where you will go to see the files on the Windows share.
Quote:
how do i set the username and password for this file share.
The username and password are actually optional. They are only needed if your Windows host requires a username and password to access the share.
If you do not need a username and password do not include them.
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