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How Do I Map a Drive Network Share Using the Linux Terminal?

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Still getting used to Linux, and the GUI is great. I have Ubuntu 10 and I can go to Network and see the Windows network. Then double clicking this gets me to the drives that are shared. Then when I go back to the terminal and use: I can see the mapped drives. But it would be nice if I could this wi…

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cd ~/.gvfs

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Fix for: How Do I Map a Drive Network Share Using the Linux Terminal?

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Create a directory on your machine to use as a mount point for the share: Then use the mount command to map a Windows share to the mount point you just created: You should now be to access the share from your /media/yoursharename mount point.

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