Netbook Experience

I’ve discovered that you can map a drive to any shared network drive on your Network.

This is useful as it allows me to access videos and music on the storage device on my main computer.

I found the method by mixing together a number of solutions I found on the net but here’s the method I followed.

• Create a directory in /home/user called network
• Open a Terminal Window
• type the following: sudo mount -t cifs -o username=*AAAA,password=*PPPP //*IP/*share /home/user/network

But replace:
*AAAA with your username for the network share on the other device.
*PPPP with the password of the above username.
*IP with the IP address of your PC
*share with the name of the network share – on my PC this is the drive letter e

eg sudo mount -t cifs -o username=admin,password=password //10.1.0.1/e /home/user/network

Now when you browse your home/user/network directory of your Acer Aspire One you will see the contents of your shared drive.

You will need to do this process each time you re-start your computer.
I’ve added a menu entry to make this process easier.

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