"map Network Drive" Equivalent?

Is there any way to mount an smb network drive, so amaroK and others will access it as local media?

yes!!

but because linux doesn't use drive letters, you have to assign it to a folder instead

try this
1. create a new folder (example "music") in your home folder (in my case, /home/badger_fruit/)
2. run a teminal (konsole) and type:-

su
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.200/music /home/badger_fruit/music/

before you hit enter to execute, you need to change "192.168.0.200/music" to your server's IP address and share name

3. browse to the folder you created in step 1. hopefully, you should now see your networked files but if not, play about with the mount command, if you get really stuck you can try reading man mount from the konsole or re-post error messages etc if that doesn't help

now, as for "re-mapping" or re-mounting on startup, im not sure, i actually came here to post that very question myself lol (see thread --> http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=34449)

Is there any way to mount an smb network drive, so amaroK and others will access it as local media?
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Yes, you can mount them temporarily with the command "mount" entered into a console, or permanently (as foreshadowed by badger-fruit) with an entry in smbfstab or fstab. Since there is a spectrum of possible share configurations the answer's not a one-liner. So I'm drafting some detail and recipes into a tutorial: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [Network Drive] in openSUSE.

Hope that helps

Swerdna

Thanks! It all works happily