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Written by:

Ronnie Tucker (KDE)

Jan Mussche (Gnome)

Elizabeth Krumbach (XFCE)

Mark Boyajian (LXDE)

R

arely will anyone want

to continually type a

networked folder by

name, and this is where

network drive mapping comes in

handy. In Windows XP you can

assign an unused drive letter to a

folder on the network. In the

example above

\\storage01\sharename (a folder

on the network) will become W: in

My Computer. A similar thing can

be done in most *buntu distros.

Kubuntu

Drive mapping in Kubuntu is

quite easy. Simply browse through

your network until you find a folder

you would like a shortcut to. Right

click on the folder and choose “Add

to places”.

Your folder will show on the list

in the left panel. The globe

signifies a network item.

You can remove the item from

the list by right clicking on it and

choosing “Remove entry...”.

You can use this handy trick as a

sidebar shortcut for almost any

folder local or networked.

Gnome-Shell

In Gnome-Shell this works

almost the same. First, find the

folder or disk you want to mount in

Nautilus, then right-click it and

choose Mount. The mo u n ted folder

will now appear in the left column

in Nautilus. From there you can

choose it as if it were a local folder.

When you want to un-mount it, just

right-click on the mounted folder in

the left panel of Nautilus and

choose un-mount.

This is nice, but needs to be

done every time you boot your

computer since the mount won’t

last. For a sticky mount you have to

use the /etc/fstab file. In this file all

disks and folders which need to be

mounted during boot are listed. A

normal samba way of mounting a