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= Connecting to a Server by Mounting your HDA =
= Connecting to a Server with the File Browser =
I was having trouble in Ubuntu accessing my network drives. I used "Connect to server..." under "Places" and I was able to access the files fine until I needed to access them in Firefox or other programs to upload them.
It was explained to me that it's being mounted via Nautilus and that's not truely "mounted" in the linux sense.
Here's the resolution.
I opened up a terminal window. In my user folder, there were already folders called "Music", "Pictures", "Documents" and "Vidoes". I wanted to use those folders so I didn't have to create more. If they didn't exist though, the could be created using the command:
mkdir music
Then of course repeat the command replacing the word "music" with "pictures" "documents" and "movies" or "videos".
Now time to mount.
I used the following commands (of course, replace the username with your username unless you are also kevin):
sudo mount.cifs '\\hda\music' Music -o user=kevin
sudo mount.cifs '\\hda\pictures' Pictures -o user=kevin
sudo mount.cifs '\\hda\docs' Documents -o user=kevin
sudo mount.cifs '\\hda\movies' Videos -o user=kevin
And that was it. Now the files in Amahi are mounted as if they are local files on my computer.
Just to check, I opened up Firefox, logged into Gmail, composed a new message and clicked "Attach a file" then "Browse". Sure enough, the files were all there.
