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Part II: Getting Up to Speed with Linux
Here’s how to access your Windows files from each Linux file manager:
✓ Nautilus: Select the Places menu. The Windows drive is listed along with
all the other locations you can access (the name of the drive will match
the long name used in Windows but not the drive letter).
✓ Dolphin: The Windows drive appears in the list of locations in the navigation
bar area — again, using the same long drive name as in Windows.
Some Windows PCs use a hidden partition on the hard drive to hold emergency
restore files. These partitions won’t be hidden in Linux, so be careful
that you don’t ruin anything important to your Windows system (unless, of
course, you’re planning on removing Windows)!
Accessing Network Drives
Sometimes the drive you want to access is on another computer. If the drive
on the other computer is set up to be accessible through your network, you
can access it via the Nautilus, Dolphin, or Konqueror file managers:
✓ In the GNOME desktop, choose Places➪Network to walk through a list of
shared folders found on your network. If you want to access a Windows
computer, double-click Windows Network. The Windows computers
on your network that have drives available for browsing are displayed.
From there, you can browse to where you want to go!
✓ In the KDE world, choose KDE➪Computer➪Network (see Chapter 5). The
Dolphin file manager opens in network mode, as shown in Figure 7-9.
Figure 7-9:
Dolphin in
network
mode.