Phanlix @ Phanlix @lemmy.world

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How do you map a network drive? I've literally put 8 hours of my fucking life trying to figure it out and I can't get it to work. It's a must have thing for me to stay in Linux.

Sure.

Off the rip I can say trying to map a network drive is exactly what the issue with Linux has on user friendliness.

In MS you open up "computer" right click and select "add network drive". Then a series of prompts has you enter server and username and you're done. Drive mapped and mapped permanently. Oh and it's been this easy to do since windows 2000.

How's that done in Linux?

https://www.edgeverve.com/assistedge/knowledge-base/RPA19.1/Installation/Appendix_I/Mounting_Shared_Folder_in_Linux.htm

That seems to be the guide but I can't get it to work. You have to do everything 100% manually through command line, which I know is the Linux way. Ultimately I kept getting errors and never got it to work.

Mapping a network drive is semi-advanced I know. The fact that I even know what that is should tell you I'm not a beginner with PCs. The fact that I cannot make this simple process work despite being a tech professional (thank God in a windows environment) should tell you more.

So what you're saying is don't use Linux if you're on Nvidia, got it.

It can't even do basic shit like mount a network drive. Trash OS is trash. I adapted to Mac just fine and android just fine. This bullshit OS will never be made easy to use, that much is apparent.

Or, and hear me out here, Linux is just terrible and will never be user friendly

I've been tested Linux since 2005 every time I have to reinstall windows and I've never once been able to get Nvidia to work easily. I've done it but it's always been a bitch and a half.

Name them. Because nothing I can find on any forum is working.

It's funny you have to be an expert to get basic functionality lol

Oh right it's my fault for expecting Linux to work lol. This response is why people will NEVER switch to Linux. The outright refusal of the community to make Linux in any way user friendly.

So, I actually did try what you suggested earlier. The share isn't actually on a windows PC it's on a ASUS AC-3200 router that has Samba sharing capabilities. Gives me the ability to set up an FTP server on my router and access my 22tb NAS from anywhere. Also allows me to easily (when using windows or android) access my media from any PC locally.

The goal is to mount it permanently instead of having to repeat this process each time, hence the tutorial I posted.

But I'd settle for it fucking working.

In 'other locations' it actually pulls up the 'windows network' and shows 'workgroup' and 'Alexandria_Library' (my share server). Well... it's more accurate to say it does that maybe 1/3 of the time, most times it says 'folder is empty' on the windows network.

I can actually type

smb://Alexandria_library and it pulls up, but from there 'vault' is the folder which everything is in. Clicking that and I get an error that says 'unable to access file location: Failed to mount windows share: software caused connection to abort'.

For giggles I tried what you suggested. smb://alexandria.local/Vault/. I got excited for a second when it prompted for username and password. But after trying it throws a different error 'unable to access location: failed to mount windows share: invalid argument'.

For giggles I tried different variations and capitalization of all that, but no go. My windows domain is WORKGROUP as well, I was able to confirm that.

So still no go sadly.

Not a troll! I legit am trying linux and am going to document my week long experience trying to adopt and replace windows as my daily driver.

If that experience is a bad one and you're actually a fan of this hot garbage, maybe listen and learn how to reach more users based on my shitty experience.

This is where the gaps in your perspective start, concrete 3D printing is incredibly niche, and would usually take more higher paid labor to be used in places that replace concrete methods. That’s not to mention the significant labor in their design and production.

Uh... I literally grew up in a family that runs a construction business and have been heavily involved with both the actual construction of houses AND the business management aspect side of things.

So let me tell you right now that you're totally and completely ignorant. Running one of these things takes 1 skilled person who makes sure the machine is extruding correctly by maintaining the proper water/concrete mix, and 3 unskilled people to smooth the concrete layers out.

That’s the same with medical AI, AI in general has a massive hallucination problem, but for diagnosis especially, just as many doctors are actually needed for the core part of their job- treatment and running the tests to gather the data for the AI in the first place.

Again wrong. My mom is a nurse and has worked with IBM as well. Currently nurses feed in all the data, and it spits out a diagnosis, then a doctor reviews it's diagnosis and rolls with it. Considering it's almost 99.9% accurate in diagnosis already it's better than the doctors.

Capitalism has been remarkably effective at that, it allows people to be as lazy as possible.

Lol yeah fucking right.

You are 100% bonkers man, the fact that you can spout this much bullshit is pretty incredible in and of itself.

I hope am sure there’s an easy way, we just have to figure out what that is. Wish you the best of luck, though!

there's not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/mkdld1/how_do_i_permanently_mount_a_network_drive/

Most forums and places I've searched agree this is how you do it. But try as I might it will NOT work. Unfortunately this is something that must work for Linux to be a viable replacement for windows for me, so it's something I have to either solve or just... put Linux down again for another 5 years and pray that the community one day realizes that it MUST solve these kind of headaches without command line intervention.

When I google "how to mount a network drive in windows" I get https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/map-a-network-drive-in-windows-29ce55d1-34e3-a7e2-4801-131475f9557d as the first result. Which is a complete step by step tutorial on how to do it. It uses a nice little GUI set of windows, wherein you input your server and username and bam, everything just works.

When I google "how to mount a network drive in Fedora 39" I get absolutely NOTHING related to how to do this in Linux. Which is a basic bitch level of functionality btw, mounting a remote drive is basically required in an office environment.

When I finally found instructions they were.

1. Create a local folder

sudo mkdir /media/SYNC_ME

2. Open fstab, which appears to be an equivalent of a MS registry key where drive configuration is stored.
3. add the following line to FSTAB to link your remote server to the local folder you created which 'mounts' it in the OS.

//NASIPADDRESS/SYNC_ME /media/SYNC_ME cifs username=USERNAME_HERE,password=PASSWORD_HERE,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

4. When this inevitably doesn't work, basically sit and stare at the screen. Because I've deep dived at least a dozen fucking forums at this point and no one seems to have an answer as to why it doesn't work. I'm sure some guru could make it work, but making it user friendly at all to do this basic bitch level of functionality is frankly insane.

Sounds like you’ve been very unlucky.

No, this is my Linux experience since I first installed ubuntu in 2005. I've tried at least 5 times to pick up this hot garbage and it ends the same way every time. With admission of defeat and an eventual return to an OS that works, which would be windows or mac.

Garuda Linux

I may eventually check that out. I was hoping to use a basic version of Linux then configure it for gaming myself to learn a bit, but am quickly realizing that Linux is still as absolutely unfriendly and unusable as it was 20 years ago.

They're literally releasing official versions for Linux. I'm not going to be mad at Nvidia, I'm going to be mad at the Linux community at this point for saying in another thread where I was asking about Nvidia support, and they responded 'nah shouldn't be an issue, there are only rarely Nvidia issues. Fucking. Liars.

What fucking manual?

I'm googling and reading a dozen god-damned articles. Maybe stop releasing a whole new version every 6 months and sit down to document shit.

Or how about this... Make it easier to do basic shit. Command line is for psychopaths. It's fucking 2023 and you haven't figured out how to make this steaming pile of shit user friendly? That's a failure of the entire Linux community at this point.

Thanks for an actual response.

Nope I downloaded VLC through the software manager.

I actually first started using Linux back in 2005 on Ubuntu. I force myself to try Linux about every 5 years praying to god that the community has pulled its collective head out of it's ass and done anything at all to make it easier to use. Almost 20 years and that hope is obviously a god-damned pipe dream.

I'm going to do this for one week, doing daily updates and trying my god-damned best to get this shit software to do what the community says it can do. I managed the get Nvidia working on 39, which looks like an accomplishment given the other post linked about Nvidia and issues with 39.

Btw mounting a NAS is basic, basic office environment functionality. I don't know how Linux ever expects to take over in the office if mounting a NAS drive is this stupid and difficult.

I couldn't even get the live version of Nobara to work. The live USB just said "kernel error".

There's only so much ass I can handle. Linux seems to almost delight in being utterly inaccessible.