Today, I bring you:
How to add a terminal launcher to the xfce panel:
right-click>add new item>launcher
Then find the terminal program in /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal and drag it into the launcher. Or, just set command to "/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal" and uncheck the "run in terminal" box. Give it a nice name and picture of a terminal window.
How to connect to a windows shared area when smb4k is acting up:
If you can see the various windows computers in smb4k (eg ACOMPUTER) but it won't let you mount ACOMPUTER/afile, then try this on the command line...
sudo mount -t smbfs //ACOMPUTER/afile/ -o username=myname /home/myfile/MyMount/
...where you have provided your username to access the shared area. When prompted, give the corresponding password.To unmount:
sudo umount /home/myfile/MyMount/
