Assign a Drive Letter to a Folder

[Loïc Grenié]

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