Mounting windows shared folders (Samba) is the best (and likely the only) way this will work. Once you add the folder to /etc/fstab its easy as pie. Try a couple online guides, I think you'll figure it out
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280473 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba On Apr 16, 8:53 am, lavallie <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry but does anyone have any other ideas how to make picassa work > across the network to other drives? > > Tks > > On Apr 14, 8:56 pm, lavallie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the response leiz. > > > Sorry but I am new to UB and I guess I am not doing the sudo mount > > right. > > > The drive, when using Dolphin is at smb://b...@billvista/E/Pictures. > > How I work that into the sudo mount - I guess I am missing something. > > > I tried > > > sudo mount -t cifs //b...@billvista/E/Pictures > > sudo mount -t cifs //billvista/E/Pictures > > > In case you haven't guessed, I am totally new to Lynux. > > > Bill > > > On Apr 14, 11:29 am, leiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It sounds like you're accessing your SMB shares via GVFS. Picasa does > > > not support that unfortunately. > > > > If you mount your SMB shares, i.e. sudo mount -t cifs //HOST/Share / > > > path/to/mount_point, then Picasa can see your SMB shares. > > > > On Apr 14, 7:33 am, lavallie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am using Ubuntu 8.10. I have installed Picasa 3.0. > > > > > When i try to add a folder, it appears there is no facility to go > > > > across the network to retrieve image files from a Windows computer. > > > > > I have shared the win computer, and can see it from other win > > > > computers, but picassa does not have a "Network" option. > > > > > I can, using the network manager on ubuntu, access the photos so i > > > > know the SMB function is working. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
