<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">There are many ways. But what I do is mount it using NFS (network file system). The underlying "guts" of everything graphical in Linux is non graphical. The graphical interface uses many components to talk to files stems and not always the same methods. Just because you map a network drive in one place doesn't mean other apps know about it. However, everything seems to know about mounted filesystems. <br>
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Also, your network filesystems may be actually available on the underlying filesystems tree, just not where you know to look. For instance, an "automounted" network filesystems may be under /net someplace. Or it may be under /mount someplace.<br>
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>From a command line type "df" or "df -k" to see what storage is mounted and the space usage. That will show you the "mount points" where the file systems are. Also "df -lk" will only show local disks, leaving out network storage.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 23, 2015 10:34:36 AM PST, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="Arial">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.<br />
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Here's the problem:<br />
Jobs folder mapped and bookmarked so it shows up in the Places
menu.<br />
Open development software (or LibreOffice, or ...) and it only
shows local folders, nothing on the network.<br />
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How I would like it to work:<br />
On the Windows machines (XP, and 7) I map the network jobs folder
to say drive E:<br />
Open development or accounting or ??? software and it sees drive E
like any other and works fine.<br />
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