Browse to Windows shares from an application

[jlapp]

Greetings,

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and loving how much easier it seems to work with our windows network in the office (compared to my vary limited exposure to Fedora).

The only issue I'm still having in this regard is that even though i've 'bookmarked' my windows shares in my file browser, I can not access them when I'm browsing for files from an application interface.

I'm sure I have overlooked something simple here, and hope someone can enlighten me.

Thanks,
JL

[D-cat]

While the heavier file browsers and apps (designed for KDE or Gnome) have support for Samba (the smb://) protocol necessary to browse shares on a Windows network, any lighter application designed to not be dependent on the heavier desktop libraries will not have built-in support to access the Windows network.

The way around this is to actually mount a windows share to your drive tree (say, in /mnt/smb0) so then you can browse to the directory in any application.

cd /mnt
sudo mkdir smb0 (or whatever you like)
sudo mount -t smbfs -o rw,guest //address/share /mnt/smb0

See other pages for username/password options (instead of guest).
[Samba] mount -t smbfs
smbmount(8): mount smbfs filesystem - Linux man page

[jlapp]

D-cat, thanks for your reply.

My initial attempt using your suggestion and the username link technique in the supplied link did not meet with success, but thanks for getting me started down this path.

I'll dig into it a bit more when I have a little more spare time (just returning from a 4 day weekend) and post how I'm doing. I just wanted to let you know I appreciated the response.

JL