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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by smallbigfish on Sunday February 24, 2019 @11:56PM (#19243067)
"On Windows, you can basically use a UNC path"

How about NFS in Linux? It's a lot more transparent than SMB will ever be in Windows. SMB is and will remain a Windows feature.

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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by Mister_Snuggles on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:43AM (#19245183)
These aren't the same thing.

In Windows, you can basically use a UNC path anywhere because CreateFile knows how to deal with it. The point is that you don't need to mount the remote filesystem (the Windows-equivalent being mapping a network drive).

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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by ti_ranger on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:02AM (#19253156)
I don't mount remote filesystems, autofs does it for me whenever I browse /net/$hostname
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