smb mounts

[Tim]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 12:08 +0100, malcolm at interele.demon.co.uk wrote:
> If I click on 'Computer' and navigate around to a Windows share I can
> see all the files OK - how do I get other apps to see those files -
> where are they mounted ?

If you look at the address bar in Nautilus, you'll see things like:
"smb://computer-name/share-name/file-path/filename" which you may be
able to use in other applications.  But it's been my experience that few
applications can directly use a resource that way.

Make a mount entry for it in your /etc/fstab file, and map it to your
directory tree, then most things can use it like any other filepath on
your system.

e.g. Something like the following:

//computer/share   /mnt/computer/share   smbfs  auto

(Change the "auto" to "noauto" if you don't want it automatically
mounted when you boot.)

See:  man mount
      man fstab

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