fusesmb very cool functionality

James McDonald james
Tue Dec 12 18:36:54 PST 2006


OK so you are running xfce and like thunar over xffm but are frustrated 
that thunar doesn't have the ability to natively browse an SMB network. 
Here is a workaround

fusesmb is awesome for providing filesystem like access to the SMB 
network shares.

Create a directory somewhere
    mkdir /mnt/smb

Change perms
    chmod 777 /mnt/smb

The fuse module must be loaded in the kernel and triggered to load at 
boot check it is and if not add it to your boot scripts/modules file.
     /sbin/lsmod  | grep fuse
    fuse                   43528  2

Install the fusesmb package
    apt-get install fusesmb

Edit ~/.smb/fusesmb.conf to provide defaults and user/pass use `man 
fusesmb.conf' for the correct format

Run fusesmb to mount the SMB network to the directory
    fusesmb /mnt/smb

Change into the /mnt/smb directory and then when you ls you should see 
workgroups,hosts,shares as nested directories
e.g. MYWORKGROUP/mycomputer/myshare

Now just add the /mnt/smb directory as a shortcut in the left pane in 
thunar and bobs your uncle.









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