no "network" location in thunar

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:40:36AM -0800, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> I am using xubuntu 11.10 (64 bit edition) which has XFCE 4.8 desktop. Also the Thunar version is 1.2.3
> 
> The problem is I can not see the "network" location in the left side of file manager.
> There are only "mahmood" (which is home), "desktop", "trash" and "filesystem".
> How can I open remote locations?
> 
I wonder if this is related to my missing automounts?  It looks as if,
for some reason, thunar is failing to find any non-permanant drives.

Is there maybe something amiss witih the way it communicates using DBUS?

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Chris Green