Want to connect to a network share without going through the long and arduous process of mounting it?
Try this:Â hit (gently) the Alt-F2 keys to bring up a Run Application window.
If you’re trying to connect to a server called sarcasm.arsgeek.com and a share named ‘haha’ enter the following:
smb://sarcasm.arsgeek.com/haha
Alternately, if you have an IP address and share name, and that IP was 192.168.0.1, then enter:
smb://192.168.0.1/haha
Easy as pie.
Author’s Note: neither the server nor the share really exist, so trying that will get you no love and all errors.Â
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May 15th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
You should specify that it’s a nautilus tip. Won’t work with ROX nor about any other file managers. Sadly.
January 12th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Thank you for this tip, it helped me to finally settle a connection with my office LAN, it is pretty hard using a linux notebook under a windows LAN.
June 13th, 2011 at 9:35 am
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