smb mounts

[Neal Becker]

Tim wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 07:46 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> Build/install smb4k and use kde.  You'll love it.
> 
> I just removed KDE, so I can't try it, but looking at a website about
> it, that just looks like network browsing.  Does it extend the feature
> to other applications though?  (i.e. Beyond Konqueror.)
> 
> So, for example, if you were using your word processor and wanted to
> open or save a file over the network, you could use a remote path that
> wasn't mounted somewhere onto the directory tree?
> 
> It sounded like the original poster wanted to do something like that,
> and I know I have from time to time.  On Windows I never bothered with
> mounting SMB shares to a drive letter, but on Linux I've had to do
> something like that for remote resources.
> 

Yes.  It will provide a gui through which you can _easily_ mount any shares,
just by clicking.  Then any app can access them.