Network locations

[earny]

I installed Suse 10.1 a couple of days ago. Nice look and feel. However for mail I use Thunderbird. The mail file is on the shared harddisk of another computer in my local (home) network. However I cannot create a link to this network location, The only way to do this is through the network icon on the desktop (including smb resources). But this location (url or whatever you want) cannot be used by an application such as Thunderbird. I tried to install smb4k, but I can' t open this samba browser as I was used to (then I could reach the network loctaions through smb4k in my home directory) . Any idea how the netork locations can be approached by applications? Or how can I open the smbk network browser?
Thanks in advance

[larrydag]

You could setup an NFS mount. NFS allows you to setup an file or directory available as a network share. You will need to have a NFS server on the host computer and a NFS client setup on the client side. Numerous tutorials available via google.

Google: NFS howto

[jerryrw]

If you are trying to get to a smb share you can mount it directly using mount if you kernel has support for it. I mount several smb shares using a stock FC4 kernel just make your filesystem type smbfs or cifs and point the sources at the servers nmb name.

[robshan]

If you are trying to get to a smb share you can mount it directly using mount if you kernel has support for it. I mount several smb shares using a stock FC4 kernel just make your filesystem type smbfs or cifs and point the sources at the servers nmb name.

you should be able to edit /etc/fstab to mount the smbfs location on boot.

I havent really played around with it, but I would assume that once the smbfs has been mounted, then your application should see it as a local folder rather than a network share.