network access via open file dialog

Question

Hallo all,

i'm trying to use easytag to tag my music collection that is shared on a NAS in my home network. But my problem is, that i cannot access the NAS in the open file dialog (can only access everything on my computer but nothing in the network).

I had this problem for several times. In some applications, the open-file-dialog supports network storages and in other applications not. Is this normal?

Is there a possibility, how i'm able to access the network device in those programms?

greetings

Answer 1

You should be able to access your NAS file system by first mounting it, don't worry, this isn't complex. It just involved navigating to the file system first. Go to your network in Places > Network:

Now you'll get a window showing computers on your network. Visit the computer and the share you want to browse files for:

You'll see it appears on the desktop when you browse to it. Next when you go into your save dialog box, just make sure to select the network file system on the left:

Assuming you have read/write permissions, you should be able to save. If your system doesn't work like this, then please give us a screenshot.