Nautilus and remote servers

[Arnold Maestre]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:22:12 -0500, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:12:42 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bit of a fork in the conversation here, but I was wondering how one
> > browsed NFS networks with Ubuntu?
> 
> I would imagine it's the same way that Samba browsing (is supposed to)
> works. Click on Computer in the top panel and select Network. The
> reason I say it's supposed to work is because it doesn't work very
> well for me. My Slackware box with Samba shares shows up there, but my
> other Ubuntu box and my family's other computers don't show up either.
> I haven't really needed it yet, so I haven't worked very hard to
> figure out why it doesn't work. If I use the "Connect to server"
> option in Nautilus and provide the proper credentials, I can connect
> just fine. Just no browsing in the Network window.

I don't think there is a NFS method in the "Connect to a server"
method. If I had to do this, I would just mount the NFS partition and
browse the mount point, or better yet, create an automount point so
that the share is loaded as soon as I browse it...

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Arnold Maestre