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This is the type of nonsense that explains why Linux is used by <5% users.

You are forced to go through some sort of byzantine geek command line gibberish over a period of years to perform what...

I don't think the fakeraid is misconfigured. Ubuntu never touched it - it is confiugured by Promise for a Windows installation and it works as advertised - for years I might add. Samba simply cannot...

Appreciate the help Darko - it has been enlightening as always.

Samba/Ubuntu obviously cannot deal with the fakeraid on the local machine. When the local machine is booted to windows, Samba has no...

Well, the fdisk -l is convoluted. Raid within raid that does not actually exist.

Ubuntu and/or Samba do not see them for what they are.
As you properly described - the layout described by fdisk...

sdb1 is the Linux boot partition

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
/dev/sdb1: clean, 194831/1099440 files, 1079445/4394240 blocks...

as follows if I understood the line correctly:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.179/Data /mnt -o guest ls /mnt
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h :...

Well, sort of.

BX5-U has no issues mounting the shares on BX6-U. The issue is that it is not serving up it's own shares either to other Samba servers or to itself.

By the way, the same...

Simple way of checking that theory is shut down BX6-U to eliminate all possibility of conflict in naming, reboot BX5-U and see what shakes. Back shortly...

I understand the difficulty and appreciate your patience.

From the attached clip you can see that the same server on BX5-U allows an XP machine on the same network to browse files.

I do not...

See attached clip from another 12.04 machine (BX6-U) on the same network. Obviously cannot access the partition "Data2" on BX5-U. The Server on BX5-U is not serving.

I repeat - Samba servers on...

lol

yep, same machine - the lower right is Nautilus opened on the same machine, simply with a new window.

As posted earlier - 12.04 (and windows machines on the network) can mount browse and...

clip of the Nautilus screen attached

Both of the proggies mentioned are GUI front ends. For those of us who are command-line challenged, they are usually pretty slick. This is obviously an exception.

this is the piece of the...

There is something basically bogus in the way some other GUI apps deal with fakeraid which cascades to other partitions on the local machine - specifically both system-config-samba and pysdm. I...

fyi -

PySDM is a Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mountpoints without manually access to fstab.
It also allows the creation of udev rules for dynamic...

screenshot of psydm

Thanks Darko

Does this shed any light on it?

sudo dmraid -ay
RAID set "pdc_ddbhgeedgg" already active
RAID set "pdc_ddbhgeedgg1" already active

I gather that to be sbc and sbd [which are...

I have pretty much the same setup, but with XP on sda. Have 12.04/Grub on sdb and the bios has to be configured with sdb as the boot drive. To get XP as an functional option from the grub menu, you...

Install default-jdk using Synaptic

works for me. ymmv

Have a functional dual boot 12.04/XP with fakeraid on an external card.

After log on in 12.04 the fakeraid is visible, can be mounted manually, the array is seen by 12.04 as a single drive and...

Older video card not supported by versions 11 and 12

Although you are apparently satisfied at this point, I would hasten to add that the issue with raid was not resolved with the wubi install. If I understand correctly, what you have now is essentially...

Fresh install of 12.04 as dual-boot with XP.

Does not display or flickers the mouse pointer when hovering/moving over some applications and some portions of the OS. Unity icons work fine System...

Your issue appears to be related to raid. The resident guru on this is Darko [search for his threads mentioning raid] - hopefully he will offer to help.

My guess is that Ubuntu sees no partitions...

You understood correctly.

Well, actually, it worked using

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

and now the multi boot menu works as advertised.

long...