Assign a Drive Letter to a Folder
Loïc Grenié
loic.grenie at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 14:42:27 UTC 2009
2009/10/28 Rafa <r4f1t4 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/28 Prabhat Tyagi <prabhattyagi83 at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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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