run/user/your-user-name/gvfs/smb-share:server=nas-name,share=share-name I would guess I don't need to understand it since my NAS isn't a Windows device, right? I also Googled 'what is samba' and found this page which seems to indicate that it's software to help non-windows computers communicate with windows resources. So, why can't I 'see' my NAS once 'mounted' when trying to attach a file to an email or upload an attachment here in Chrome? I also noticed that my 'mounted' drive isn't mounted at log in, I have to open 'Files' and click on one of the bookmarks I created. I googled 'what is mount' and found that essentially it means 'connect', right? Linux doesn't use drive letters, so when my NAS is 'mounted' it just appears in the folder tree, I guess. I see the terms 'mount' and 'samba' (and a few other terminal commands or abbreviations) thrown around in discussions of networking, but I'm not exactly sure what they mean. My NAS is in the same room, on my home network, I just want to be able to access files on it in all applications. It's about connecting to the NAS over the internet when away from the local network. I simply want to be able to access the files my NAS easily from any application. I've not found a post or website that doesn't assume I know all the terms. I've tried researching this and I see lots of references to 'Samba' and 'Mounting' and other processes, but I have no idea what those are or what they mean. In Mint, I've created shortcuts to the folders I use in the 'Files' application, but when browsing the web in Chrome I cannot 'see' these shortcuts and, say, attach a file to an email in Gmail from the NAS.

In Windows, once I mapped the network drive I was able to access it from any program. Connecting to it now that I'm running Mint is confusing to me, however. It is mapped as Z: on the 2 Windows 7 PCs, as I did on my laptop when it ran Vista. I have a WD MyBook Live NAS connected to the router as our family's primary file storage. I'm new to Linux, running Mint 15 Cinnamon on my older HP laptop.

This might be better for the newbie forum, but it's a specific networking question.

Linux to mac network drive