[GLLUG] Please lecture me in Network Files Sharing

[Matt Harrison]

Depending on your distro, XFCE should have native network browsing
capabilities with Thunar in XFCE 4.8.
You do need the following packages to make it work (at least in Debian
and Fedora)
gvfs-fuse
fuse-smb

Or, if you install smbfs and winbind, you can add an entry in
/etc/fstab that will mount it to a specified folder:

Here is an example of the line I use
//192.168.1.81/Photos    /media/Shared        cifs
guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

You will need to create the folder /media/Shared    obviously name it
how you want to.

After you do that, run as root:    mount -a
Browse in Thunar to the mount point you created and you should see your files.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Ben Chavez <ebcha1974 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hope every one is having a nice weekend.
> My question today is about File sharing over the network, I recently moved
> my laptop from Gnome to Xfce, everything is fine except when I need to
> access files in my desktop.
>
> When I was using Gnome that was not a problem because Nautilus detects other
> devices over the Network but Thunar does not.
> I was playing with Samba last night and I was able to see the share folder
> and the files in, on the command line when issuing
>
> $ smbclient //LocalHost/Downloads
>
> But I couldnt figure out how to actually get them to open in my Laptop
>
> I will appreciate it. Thank  you.
>
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