I installed Ubuntu last night and...

[Karsten Fischer]

Am 22.09.2004 um 09:04 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:55:40AM -0400, Shawn Milo wrote:
>
>> My only complaint so far is that I see no way to mount a network 
>> share.
>> I have a server running Slackware and Samba. I found the "Windows
>> Network" option under Gnome, and double-clicked it, and got nothing.
>> How can this be made to work?  I want to map //fileserver/divx to
>> /home/shawn/divx, and so on. I do not want to do it in fstab, because
>> I will not hard-code a password there. Is this feature fully 
>> implemented
>> somewhere in Ubuntu as it is in Xandros? The Xandros File Manager 
>> (XFM)
>> has a "Mount Network Share" in the "Tools" menu, and everything is
>> point-and-click.
>
> Under Computer->Network, on the File menu, there is a "Connect to 
> Server"
> option which I think is what you are looking for.
>

Beware: The share is only visible through nautilus. Thus, if you try to 
save a document from OpenOffice you can't save it directly to the 
share.

Which is, by the way, somewhat annoying.