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Go to the Places menu and you'll see the bookmarked name that you created in the last step on the previous page. Click on that and you'll get a prompt for the username and password. The username should already have the username which you put in previously, so you should just need to type in the password. Choose how long you want the system to remember the password and click OK.

You should now be able to access the share!

So, what was that folder thing all about? If you want to go directly to a particular folder, go back through the Connect to Server routine again and fill in the folder box (remember the case sensitive thing!). In my case I want to have direct convenient access to my university work, so I have a special bookmark for that folder.

If you want to remove a bookmarked share, then go to Places, Bookmarks, Edit Bookmarks, highlight the bookmark and click Remove.

There is another method of connecting to remote server shares, but that is outside the scope of a Windows user transferring to Linux, which is the thrust of these articles. If you are interested in finding out more about this alternative method, use Google and start with a search for "/etc/fstab".

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