How to load network folders in Linux

How-To smbfs: smbmnt must be installed suid root | Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks

You don't actually have to do this.  You can also do a simple Samba share, and using Konqueror you can even connect to the server using SSH.  (The benefit of Samba is it's compatible with Windows, and the benefit of SSH is you get full access to the hard drive without worrying about shares or permissions, and it's a secure connection.)  But sometimes that's not good enough.

The solution: mount the samba share as a local directory.  The main reason I want to do this is certain types of videos don't stream well over a LAN unless you create a fancy VLC setup; this is way too much work to watch a simple video.  Linux video players will crash when trying to stream certain types of video over the network, but they're much happier if they think it's a local file.

The solution is to use a program called Smb4K.  It's a great GUI for browsing Samba shares and then mounting them.  Installing, of course, is a piece of cake: sudo apt-get install smb4k

But when I installed it, it had permissions problems with smbmnt.  Use the link above for the solution to that problem.  And stream away!

J