What any body know how to map a network folder in ubuntu like windows map as a drive
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Prabhat Tyagi wrote:
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> What any body know how to map a network folder in ubuntu like windows
> map as a drive
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> Thanks & Regards ..................
> Prabhat Tyagi (Software Engineer)
>
Places->connect to server

This gives you several options for how. At the bottom you add a
bookmark for easy access.

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2009/10/28 Prabhat Tyagi <prabhattyagi83@gmail.com>

What any body know how to map a network folder in ubuntu like windows map as a drive
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You could also create a symbolic link for it (ln -s remote_folder local_folder) or simply dragging the folder or file with the alt key pressed should show a contextual menu with a "link here" option.


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Rafa

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2009/10/28 Rafa <r4f1t4@gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/28 Prabhat Tyagi <prabhattyagi83@gmail.com>
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>> What any body know how to map a network folder in ubuntu like windows map
>> as a drive

> You could also create a symbolic link for it (ln -s remote_folder
> local_folder)

This won't work. You can't access network with a symbolic link.
You can access the files on an already mounted remote file system,
but not directly the remote file system.

> or simply dragging the folder or file with the alt key pressed
> should show a contextual menu with a "link here" option.

As long as you do not do a symbolic link but a ".desktop" file, it will
(should) work.

Greetings,

Loïc

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Prabhat Tyagi wrote:
> What any body know how to map a network folder in ubuntu like windows map as
> a drive
>

Linux does not have a concept anything like drive letters, so no.

But you haven't stated what you're trying to achieve. Odds are, what
you want to do is to mount a network share. Here's a quick and dirty
primer, but google will be your friend, (or return with more info)

Assuming you are trying to mount a CIFS share (Windows file sharing, or
Samba.) First you'll have install the smbfs package

sudo mkdir /mnt/test

sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt/test -o
username=winusername uid=localUsername

It's also possible to put the relevant information in your fstab file
for the network mount to happen at boot. I've also been known to put
the relevant mount commands in the rc.local file




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You are right, I was assuming that he needed another way of accessing an
already mounted resource from another path.

Regards.

Rafa

El mié, 28-10-2009 a las 15:42 +0100, Loïc Grenié escribió:
> This won't work. You can't access network with a symbolic link.
> You can access the files on an already mounted remote file system,
> but not directly the remote file system.
>
> As long as you do not do a symbolic link but a ".desktop" file, it will
> (should) work.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Loïc
>



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