Tarzan_MonkeyMan
March 15th, 2009, 10:40 AM
I'm a MS Windows user, who has become fed up and recently switched ot Ubuntu. I had some experience with UNIX many years ago. I'm using a network with a NAS. I keep my E-Mail profiles on the NAS, so that I can access them from any computer on the network.
I mounted the NAS to the directory: /mnt/NAS
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my E-Mail client (which I highly recommend) and the following command works nicely from the command line (the sudo IS needed):
sudo thunderbird -profile "/mnt/NAS/E-Mail Files/Thunderbird Profiles"
However, when I created a desktop icon Launcher I couldn't get it to work. It appears to think I don't have permission to access the NAS profile files. I've tried changing various directory/file permissions, but this didn't seem to make a difference. I've tried using gksudo and gksu, but no luck either.
Anyone have any other suggestions or an explanation as to why I can't duplicate in the Launcher what does works in the command line?
I mounted the NAS to the directory: /mnt/NAS
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my E-Mail client (which I highly recommend) and the following command works nicely from the command line (the sudo IS needed):
sudo thunderbird -profile "/mnt/NAS/E-Mail Files/Thunderbird Profiles"
However, when I created a desktop icon Launcher I couldn't get it to work. It appears to think I don't have permission to access the NAS profile files. I've tried changing various directory/file permissions, but this didn't seem to make a difference. I've tried using gksudo and gksu, but no luck either.
Anyone have any other suggestions or an explanation as to why I can't duplicate in the Launcher what does works in the command line?