There was a link to the network folder in Home - how I do not know. Removing it solved the problem .... thanks for all your help ... and I understand more too.
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There was a link to the network folder in Home - how I do not know. Removing it solved the problem .... thanks for all your help ... and I understand more too.
In case it helps, I tried dragging the rogue volume on the Desktop to terminal.
terminal reported:
Does help in trying to track it down or remove it?
David
Hi,
Yes - under a new User Account everything is fine - I can mount "DATABASE (F)". (I have not tried mounting in /mnt as nothing would).
David
Hi,
Thanks for your perseverance.
All the case matching is correct - I copied and pasted the command and names - they match Windows share names exactly.
Is there a way of renewing a possibly...
Hi,
I tried with a different folder but received the same message:
then for a different shared volume - it, too, gave the same error.
Any help would be appreciated.
David
Hi,
Apologies for the delay in replying.
No joy:
I tried it with a different windows drive and got the same result.
As a matter of interest, when trying to delete the rogue file, this is...
Hi,
XP computer:
Checked the router - STUDY-RAID (caps) is attached to 192.168.0.2. The router's LanIP setup (fixed address table ayk) has the same ip address, computer name and the MAC number is...
Weirder - it can't find the name - but can the ip address ...
I'm checking the router connection and windows name - it used to be study1-raid but I changed the name (dropping '1') some time ago.
...
Umm ...
smbmount
should that be just
mount?
sudo smbmount -o guest "//study-raid/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf
gave
Tried and received
David
Hi,
command not found ...
David
PS - didn't mean to be cryptic - somebody came to door ...
Hi,
gnome-volume-manager is not in synaptic nor is it available via terminal. Sourceforge says it is obsolete now. gvfs/nautilus do that now but that isn't that what you suggested in your first...
Thanks for replying PatchesTheCaveman.
Unfortunately it made no difference.
I am enclosing a jpg of the file on the desktop (with my mouse pointer) and the highlighted windows volume I am...
Hi
Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
Samba shared with Windows folders
I shut down Ubuntu without unmounting a Windows volume. Now on my desktop there is a file:
"database (f) on study-raid.volume"
with the...