I've been fighting with Samba shares lately, without success. If I use the right click approach, and sets guest ok and write access, I obtain a usershare which can be seen with smbclient (such as : smbclient -L myusername-desktop). I can even explore the contents of my share using smbclient : smbcli ...
there's something still obscure in linux for me even after several years of use of ubuntu:i've installed moblin on a second partition in my eeepc, the installation went well, but when i boot up the system and i start nautilus, in the PLACES sidebar i see:- 4.0 Gb volume- 17.0 Gb volume- %old%homeabe ...
In 10.04 I have a remote samba mount through SSH in Nautilus but file properties resolve users and groups as numeric not names. Any idea how to make Nautilus resolve them to names ? ...
Is there a way to prevent Nautilus from generating previews for files in a particular directory? I have an NFS mount and it insists on generating thumbnails for the files causing a great deal of bandwidth usage. I have the application preferences set to thumbnail local files only, but it doesn't see ...
I have this problem: I use xfce, I have an old machine :P but as file manager I use nautilus with the --no-desktop option.And my problem is that it doesnt mount me any cd or dvd, I have to go to rox and do it from there or in a terminal, anyone with the same problem? ](*,) thx a lot in advance ...
I've used "Connect to server..." to connect to a SAMBA share we have, and it works fine, but I'd like to know if there is a way to get nautilus to mount it when I log in, instead of when I click the bookmark. Does anybody know how to do it, or if it's even possible? ...
By default, Ubuntu doesn't mount my windows partition or my pen drive until I open them in the Places menu. I do a lot of work from the console, so this behavior is kind of annoying -- I have to interrupt my efficient stream of typing to reach for the mouse and interact with the GUI just to open a w ...
Using Ubuntu as web developer in my everyday work and I have to deal with ~127 remote ftp connections. Nautilus (the file browser) allows me to connect to remote servers via gnome-vfs and thats very cool, but the bad thing is that all the connections are mounted to desktop :( so one could imagine my ...
I have an old Samsung Digimax 130 camera. It connects through USB. Windows reads it as a mass storage device as soom as it's plugged in without the need for drivers, etc.How do I get Nautilus to show it as if its a thumb drive? I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 with a Vbox WinXP and after screwing around a bi ...
I got my hard drive copied and the old one pulled today (many thanks to Rhizoid) but now I have two partitions on my 'Places' menu that no longer exist and Ubuntu tries to mount them at boot. I booted with the live cd and took a look at the current partitions with gparted - everything looks fine the ...
I'm a complete noob to Ubuntu. I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 as a virtual machine through VMware Fusion, hosted on my Macbook Pro (snow leopard).I have an old 320G hard drive, formatted in ext3) in a powered external usb enclosure that has all of my music library on it. I'm currently unable to mou ...
Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?What do I need to do to mount my cd & cd/dvd drives?I reinstalled Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition from the CD supplied by Ubuntunow my cd & cd/dvd drives are missing from Placesbut they are listed under System > Admin > Disk UtilityCD Driv ...
I had a somewhat small partition that was unused and decided I could use that space in the partition immediately after it (meaning the partition that was listed after it when viewing the partitions in gparted). So, I unmounted the small partition and deleted it, then unmounted the partition I wanted ...
now, the worst of ubuntu: nautilus: icon/list/compact view upper-right box you can't just avoid activating it accidentally, with the up/low arrow, after changing the mode, and so, you just can't browse the files. it messes all up !!! the problem would be as follows:- in nautilus, in the LIST MODE: p ...
I want to change the default view to "list view". But the changes don't seem to stick if I close and reopen Nautilus. Is there a config file somewhere? nautilus --help is pretty useless and where's the ubuntu nautilus man page?Ta! ...
I recently had to move around some partitions and resize a few because windows 7 is ridiculous in that it takes 20+ gigs just for an install :evil:, anyway I had to temporally move the swap (delete and recreate it). Now ubuntu will not mount it when I boot and I thought I would be alright seeing as ...
Is there a way I can make Ubuntu automatically force mount a USB drive if it can't mount it normally? as it's kind of embarrassing faffing around trying to mount a USB pendrive when your showing off you new Ubuntu install:mad:also is there any reason not to force mount? ...
I have a storage drive and a storage partition on my Ubuntu Hardy setup, but when my computer starts up, i have to manually mount these drives. How could i set up Ubuntu to automatically mount these drives at startup? ...
The information is stored in /etc/fstab text file. Another option is to add a panel item called "Mount devices", see file:////usr/share/xubuntu-docs/xfce-desktop.html#desktop for instructions. (I suppose you are using Xubuntu 8.04.) BTW Do you have Xubuntu 8.04 Documentation bookmarked by ...
this is all wrong:# cd /root# mkdir ./mnt# mount /dev/sda7 ./mntmount: /dev/sda7 is already mounted or mnt is in use# umount /dev/sda7umount: /dev/sda7 is not mounted# umount ./mntumount: ./mnt is not mountedso /dev/sda7 ist NOT mounted and ./mnt is NOT in use.So why does ubuntu refuse to mount ???T ...
Quick question, the 32 bit live cd for ubuntu, can you mount say a windows partition within it and drag off the files from windows onto a flash drive? or does the Ubuntu live CD not allow you to do this?its on a laptop btw ...
My employer requires that all portable devices have their entire disks encrypted with SafeBoot. Windows XP on this particular machine has borked itself after a motherboard replacement (I guess it doesn't know how to react to a changed mobo serial and just load the existing installed drivers for the ...
Upon trying to boot Windows I got through the GRUB startup selections and then i get stuck at a black screen displaying "Starting Up. . ." That would be no problem, I just boot ubuntu instead and mount the partition to access the programs I'm looking for. Now I get an interesting error mes ...
Here is my issue. I am running 9.04.I open the file manager (Nautilus) click the network to connect to my shares and the FM crashes.out put from terminalwncamp@ubuntu:~$ nautilus(nautilus:4313): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 32x32/emotexs of theme Aqua-Glade_PNG has no size field** Message: Initia ...
My Ubuntu is installed at sda3. Windose installed at sda1.When in Ubuntu, I would like to have automatic access the XP My Documents folder, without having to ask Ubuntu to mount or auto-mount sda1 when I first try to access it.Is there a way to set Ubuntu to auto-mount a separate partition at startu ...
I have 3 drives in a RAID 0 array using Intel's MAtrix RAID ICH7R controller(integrated into motherboard). My Windows OS installed on the array has hosed itself, and I am now booting into an Ubuntu 9.04 LiveCD. I would like to try and mount the raid 0 array so I can grab some data from the drive bef ...
Trying to burn a big ISO and Ubuntu will not mount the drive. I searched google and this forum and did not find any things specific to the problem. My drive does support DVD DLs. ...
i got a dvd, when i insert, ubuntu says cannot mount UDF, why is this error?? how to atleast copy the dvd......... ...
EDIT: Given how long this post is, I have summarised in post 2 belowOn 9.04NBR on my Mini 9, I use an SD card (8GB SDHC) which is generally always in the memory card slot.I had originally (when using the 8.04) reformatted to a single 8GB ext2 partition, and labelled it sdhome. This meant that it alw ...
I have installed ubuntu over vista. my laptop is made up of a c drive and a d drive. I wrote over vista on c drive and under Computer in ubuntu i cant mount tne d drive and dont know why. any ideas? badly need help or i cant use 300GiG........ ...
I just finished installing Intrepid on my laptop. I already had a separate /home partition as /dev/sda4. During installation I told it to mount sda4 as my /home directory but the installation would always fail near the end. So I installed without mounting /sda4 as /home. I tried mounting it as home ...
I've got a Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB external that I can no longer mount because I changed its properties. Properties -> Volume -> Settings and I changed the mount point from "/media/FreeAgent Drive_" to "/media/FreeAgent500". I then unmounted it and when I tried to remount ...
Ok, I have an mp3 player, with an sd card. Works fine, was mounting just fine as 2 seperate drives in ubuntu.Trying to get it to work properly with a sync program, I went to the drive icon on the desktop, clicked properties, volume and changed the Mount Point to /sansa on one and /sdmicro on the oth ...
Normally upon starting Ubuntu, I have 2 ntfs partitions on a hard drive for storage. Ubuntu would automatically mount these and allow me access to the files on them without me doing anything than double clicking the drive icon on my ubuntu desktop.Now, the drive icons no longer appear on my desktop, ...
Does anyone know why ubuntu does not mount the root drive which i installed windows to. The root drive appeared when I first set up ubuntu, but once I updated everything and restarted, the root drive no longer mounts. I want to be able to access my windows files from ubuntu, so if any knows the fix, ...
I have 64-bit Lucid on my AMD/ATI system. I have not been able to use nautilus for the last 2 months. When I use Places to open a folder, I get 'Starting -----" in the gnome panel, but nothing more. I tried to open nautilus using the terminal, for which I get the response,finney1972@AMD-Ubuntu: ...
I just reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 because of problems with windows. I can see both my drives with gparted, but I cannot mount the d drive, I put the Ubuntu install next to windows on the c drive but last time I installed 10.04 I could see my d drive, that is where all my music and .avi files are locat ...
Hi. I've got my smb mounts setup in my fstab. Works great. When using nautilus, the mount points are duplicated in the side pane, with some of them being mounted, and others not mounted (they also have different icons). There's no dupe entries in my fstab. How do I stop this messy behavior in nautil ...
I have a problem when inserting certain usb-sticks and using my Nokia N73 in mass storage mode, because they present themselves as storage device without partitions, instead filesystem is directly on device and Ubuntu won't mount it.What I mean, usually device is seen as, e.g. /dev/sda and partition ...
Problem: I inadvertently set a bad mount point for an external firewire drive using the HH GUI. The drive is now inaccessible. Any attempt to umount & mount the drive / reboot etc returns the same error: Attempts to mount the drive return "Cannot mount volume. Unable to mount volume" ...
when i log in, gnome doesnt start and give me this error ubuntu nautilus can`t be used now due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to register the file manager viewer serverthere are no icons on desktop, but skype and other autostart programs are loaded.(few days ago i saw an update f ...
after upgrading to 9.10 i was asked to reboot the system and after that ubuntu couldn't mount the hard disk. any solution? ...
to all. after looking for a solution for my problem i cannot be able to find it, so I tell my problem here.After a reboot, ubuntu sends the next error: "kinit. no resume image...". I solved with a swapoff/mkswap of /dev/sda3 (swap).then, ubuntu starts normally, but no graphic display appea ...
Hi, I have an WD 2500BEV external hard drive. after formatting it to fat32 on my ubuntu and uploaded on it some files, I tried to see the files on my other computer (with windowsXP), but didn't saw the drive. after looking on some threads about it I active a wizard at the disk management of windows. ...
Well, everything worked fine in my Ubuntu 10.10, until I restarted the PC and I got this message from a hard disk I've been using before with ubuntu:Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 16: Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.The volume may be already mounted ...
I am having Seagate 1.5 external drive with NTFS partition. When I plug it into ubuntu it shouws "Mount Error" No other message or detail is given. It was removed properly from windows system and i tried running checkdisk in windows to see if there are any errors still it fails. I have als ...
I have a Maddog Multimedia - MegaStor - Triple Format DVD-RW Drive - 480 MBpps USB 2.0 - MD-16X3DVD9-8XE on hardy release 8.04, kernel 2.6..24-23 generic - Gnome 2.22.3I looked over the following documents for help and I'm stuck.https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB MountUSBhttps://help.ubuntu ...
i did a quick search and found some people with somewat similar problems, but nothing that could help me.wen i hook up my external hdd, ubuntu doesnt auto mount the harddrive. through another thread i was able to find some command line that should display the location of my hdd, so that i could manu ...
HiI have a mp3 player with a flash drive. The file system is FAT32.When I insert in the usb port, the device is not detected automatically.I tried the guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB#Manually%20Mountingxx:~$ sudo fdisk -lDisk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes255 heads, 63 sec ...
I am running gentoo-2.6.37-r4 on an AMD64 machine A=10.10.1.3. I am sharing this with another machine, a Ubuntu maverick, with IP 10.10.1.4 (B). So, I export my filesystem like so on machine A.MACHINE-A # more /etc/exports/storage/ 10.10.1.4(async,ro,no_subtree_check,all_squash,ano nuid=1000,anongid ...