title: access to a samba folder within Stata on Ubuntu
body: <p>I want to access to a samba folder to use it within Stata 13, so read and save data.</p>
  
  <p>I'm quite new to ubuntu, so I do not know much about it. But I've googled and I've found how to mount and access a samba folder, but I can not understand if the Stata command <code>use</code> can handle such folders.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried the following, without success</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/federico/.gvfs/federico on karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/
  
  /home/federico/.gvfs/federico%20on%20karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/"
  
  /home/federico/.gvfs/karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/
  
  smb://stats;federico@karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/federico/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/
  
  smb://federico@karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/federico/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/
  
  smb://karl.stats.ucl.ac.uk/federico/stata_shared/Thin10/THIN10_1201/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone please tell me if this is possible or it is a total waste of time? </p>