smb mounts

[Neal Becker]

Tim wrote:

> 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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