[SML] Linux question

[Ray Gibson]

Jerry,

Checking on my local 15.10 here, which should operate identically to
12 and 14, using the "connect to server" option and utilizing the
smb://server/share string to connect to them makes them available for
me in LibreOffice.

The other way to do it, which is lower level, would be to mount the
drives directly and then use a symlink to give yourself a quick
shortcut.

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=jerry,password=stagecraft
//server/share /mnt/share

The above assuming /mnt/share exists -- then create a symlink to
/mnt/share from somewhere LibreOffice can find easily.  You can also
put your network shares in fstab if you want it to be automatic.

But, you probably knew all of that already.

Ray


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> Is there any easy way to get a network drive to show up as local in Linux
> (Ubuntu 12 and 14 specifically)?  I'm updating our hardware here and our
> client jobs folder is now off on a separate server.
>
> Here's the problem:
> Jobs folder mapped and bookmarked so it shows up in the Places menu.
> Open development software (or LibreOffice, or ...) and it only shows local
> folders, nothing on the network.
>
> How I would like it to work:
> On the Windows machines (XP, and 7) I map the network jobs folder to say
> drive E:
> Open development or accounting or ??? software and it sees drive E like any
> other and works fine.
>
> --
> Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.  www.interstellar.com
> tel: +1 408 356-3886, USA toll free: 1 866 356-3886
>
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