Home Directory in Nautilus
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[edit] Intro
There is an easy way to connect to the Home Directory service through the Nautilus file manager on a Gnome desktop.
With this method, Home Directory will appear as if it's another folder within your file manager. You can bookmark it and return to it whenever you need to.
[edit] Prerequisites
This process uses the Server Message Block (smb) protocol, so make sure you have at least the following installed:
- libsmbclient
- libsmbios2
- libsmbios-bin
- samba
command line:
sudo apt-get install libsmbclient libsmbios2 libsmbios-bin samba
[edit] 1: Connect to Server
Go to Places > Connect to Server
(This is most likely in your top panel, unless you moved it).
[edit] 2: Custom Location
Under the Service Type drop-down, choose Custom Location.
File:Connect to server custom.png
[edit] 3: SMB Location
At Location (URI): enter
smb://home1.virginia.edu/mst3k
where mst3k is your computing ID
Note: Some may be on home2.virginia.edu; if you are, you'll already know.
File:Connect to server smb location.png
[edit] 4: Authenticate
In the next step, enter the following info:
Username mst3k (where mst3k is your computing ID)
Domain ESERVICES
Password (your computing ID password)
File:Connect to server pass.png
Then choose if you want Nautilus to forget the password immediately, remember it only for the time you're logged in, or remember it forever. If you remember it, the password is stored by Seahorse.
[edit] 5: Use It
You can now use your Home Directory as if it were part of your native file system.
You can also bookmark the location in Nautilus to make returning to it simple. Depending on what you choose to do with the password, you'll either have to enter it a lot or not at all.
If you choose to keep the password forever, you could conceivably use it to automatically save and store data, rather like Dropbox, but with a bit more space.
