This is not one of my usual entries about OSS and Enterprises. In my home network I run Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) on an old Dell Optiplex system of 2000 vintage. I also have a well specced out Alienware Area 51 system running Windows XP Pro. Understandably, the Alienware (suitably named Vulcan!) has lots more disk space. So most of my shared files reside in an XP Shared Documents folder. While I have permission to read and write files on that folder from my Ubuntu system, I had a pesky problem I was trying to overcome. I use Gmail on the Ubuntu box and frequently need to attach files to email messages. These files, more often than not, sit on the XP's shared folders. They do not show up when I use the "Browse" option to look for files.

I finally found the solution to my problem. Many thanks to user Matchless for this great little How-to. You don't know how much of a headache this was for me, as it was for Matchless, judging from his comments. I simply substituted the IP address with "Vulcan" and used "smbmount" to mount my remote shares and it worked like a charm.