cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares

[eightmillion]

No problem.

[happyisland]

woops! Not so fast! Now, when I type sudo gnome-open /mnt/lplayer it opens the folder, but in the terminal window I get the following message instead of the samba one I used to get:

:~$ Initializing nautilus-share extension
seahorse nautilus module initialized

** (nautilus:9093): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not supported

[happyisland]

Try this instead

sudo mount /dev/sde -o shortname=mixed,uid=$(id -u),utf8,umask=077,exec,flush /mnt/lplayer

[EDIT]
unmount the device first, if that doesn't work. append "remount" onto the options list.

You should now be able to access the drive without root privileges.

Regards
Iain

I tried this and it seems to do functionally the same thing as the 'sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/lplayer' command I've been using. Could you please explain to me what the difference is between the two?
Thanks!

[eightmillion]

You might try this...

sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami`/mnt/lplayer

Then try to open it in a normal nautilus window. You should ideally create an entry in you fstab.

[eightmillion]

sudo mount /dev/sde -o shortname=mixed,uid=$(id -u),utf8,umask=077,exec,flush /mnt/lplayer

The bold part there makes sure the filesystem is own by your current user and not root. That way you won't have to run a root nautilus to drop files on it.