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Feature Request: "Map Network Drive"

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Monday, December 5th 2005, 4:13am

Feature Request: "Map Network Drive"

I'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with the Map Network Drive feature available under windows. If not, here's the scoop....

You access account shares on your network via network neighborhood. You find a share. You right click it. You click "map network drive". You then define the driver letter... It's a really great feature...

KDE lacks this. While KDE is capable of network share discovery via Lisa, there is no option to mount it automount it, say in $HOME, creating the mount point on the fly (perhaps use autofs or similiar technique). It would be nice if this could be implemented in the future.

Neither amaroK nor bluefish work with the smb:// protocol. I still have to manually mount the samba shares in order for them to work properly, if at all. Other programs might have this same drawback as well.

Can this be something ever considered?

Thanks for your time...

Juan
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