how to share folders on a mounted drive
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop. It has a "data" partition (NTFS - windows xp) that is auto mounted at start-up.
I want to share folders (eg "My Music") in this partition on my home network (windows). However it tells me I am not the owner.
I have found "data" at /media/data and the sub-folders are there. How can I share them on the network? Help please?
Re: how to share folders on a mounted drive
There isn't enough information in your post and what there is seems contradictory so I'm going to make some WAGs:
Open nautilus as root:
And use the "Sharing Options" right click menu to share the folder.
If that doesn't resolve the issue then my guesses were wrong so I will need to know how you are automounting the ntfs partition. The output of the following command will tell me that:
And just in case the "you are not the owner" error is coming from the client rather than when you try to create the share I will need the output of these commands:
Code:
net usershare info --long
Re: how to share folders on a mounted drive
gksu nautilus did the trick!
However for future info, can I direct the output of the other commands to a file?
(FYI I'm a long-time windows user with a windows network; however when my laptop got a virus I removed te virus - and windows with it!
I've been running ubuntu on it since 10.10 and now at 12.04. I use it for music - running audacity, banshee, hydrogen, lilypond, etc etc.
and when I upgrade I'll be staicking with UBUNTU!)
Re: how to share folders on a mounted drive
Quote:
Originally Posted by
john.errington
gksu nautilus did the trick!
However for future info, can I direct the output of the other commands to a file?
Yes, example:
Code:
cat /etc/fstab > /home/john/Desktop/fstab.txt