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nautilus file browser accesses NTFS share, but mount shows nothing: how?

Asked by Steve Harris

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I'm looking for a pointer to explain how nautilus file browser is able to access a share from my Windows box without seeming to create an entry in the mount table.

I can do:

  Places -> Network -> MOZART (my WinXP box) -> Tmp (my writable share)

I can browse files, and copy files from and to the share. So naturally I assume it has been mounted. But when I do

  mount

it shows nothing! What am I missing?

TIA,

- Steve

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Best Federico "Lox" (federico.lox) said : 		#1

Nautilus accesses SMB shares directly through smb:// protocol (it uses libsmbclient as a backend trough libgnomevfs2-extra), this means you can browse shares without mounting them, Konqueror can do the same through IOSlaves.

For more informations take a look at:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-vfs-2.0/ and http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html

If you need to mount those shares through a GUI, or you want them to be automatically mounted while you browse them for some reason, use Smb4k, XSMBrowser or Komba2.

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Steve Harris (steve-harris-pobox) said : 		#2

Thanks!

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Steve Harris (steve-harris-pobox) said : 		#3

Thanks Federico "Lox", that solved my question.

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Federico "Lox" (federico.lox) said : 		#4

You're welcome :)