shared folder (Doooh Head)

[Doooh Head]

Thanks to all who replied.

For a newbie like me I was able to come up with two ways to resolve this:

Option 1 - I installed and ran the samba client.  So I would run it, locate the remote share and mount it.  Then from K3B I could locate that share from within the folder home/.../smb4k
Option 2 - I simply browsed my network, located the share on the other machine, mounted it, then as David mentioned, within K3B locate the shared folder from within the hidden home/.../.gvfs folder.  From within K3B, locate the home directory, right-click to show hidden files/directories, then find .gvfs and the shared folders are accessible from there.

John A. Bowman 



Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:24:49 -0500
From: david at ngowiki.net
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: shared folder (Doooh Head)



On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Andy Leeman <andy at leeman.ca> wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> I have managed to setup a Ubuntu Server version 8.10 (with Desktop installed so that I have a GUI).

>

> I have started to copy my media files to it but have run into a bit of a problem.  I have been able to share the folders that I want to share on the server, but how Do I connect to them from a client machine so that applications like K3B can see them?


>

> I can goto my network, locate the machine, see the shared directories in Nautilus, double-click on say a movie file and my local Movie player will open and start playing.  Great, but now I also want to open files, say in K3B so that I can burn them to a CD using its internal file dialog to locate files.  How do I create a "permanent" link to this shared folder on my server so that it is accessible via a local programs' file dialog?


>

>

> John



You can enter the following commend at the terminal;



sudo mount //192.168.1.100/server /media/folder -o

username=*****,password=*****,dmask=777,fmask=777



The //192.168.1.101/server part is the network address of your server

with the IP and the name of the folder you have shared.



The  /media/folder is the name of the folder where you want to mount

the server on your computer. That is usually in /media. You need to

create the directory first, so if you want to call is "movies" you

would create the movies dir ectory in the media directory, then use

/media/movies for the /media/folder part above.



Username and password are the username and pass to log in to your

server and the rest mounts it so it is read/write. If you don't want

read/write rights, then you can change the 777 part to something else.

If the files on the server are owned by someone other than the user,

then you cannot delete them, even if they are mounted 777.



What I do is, once I have it mounted like I want it, I then add the

commend to the fstab file using the smbmunt program so it mounts at

boot up. But I would try this first to get it fine tuned.



I think the problem is the support of gnome by k3b. try the following

a) mount first the remote share in nautilus
b) in k3b browse your local home with the hidden file shown
c) look inside the directory called ".gvs" and check if you can see and read write in the remote share 


hope it helps
 
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