I recently set up a new CPU with Mint 11 to function as a printer and
backup server. It's on the LAN as 10.0.0.31 and I can access it with no
difficulties via Remote Desktop and through Nautilus with File/Connect
to Server. I would like it to mount some of its directories as devices
on my main (also Mint 11) PC, but I can't get that to happen.
I have made the folders on the server shared using Nautilus. Again,
there is no trouble accessing them via Connect to Server.
I'm assuming that I need a line in my /etc/fstab file, but what? I went
through all this before with a shared folder on a Windows PC, and I
finally got it working as follows:
//10.0.0.3/Underhouse /media/Underhouse cifs
noauto,iocharset=utf8,username=""xxx"",password="yyy",uid=1000 0 0
This makes the Windows share appear as a volume under the Computer icon
in Nautilus and of course means I can access it via the folder
media/Underhouse.
I've tried the following with various combinations of filesystems,
passwords and user names, but although mount doesn't object to it, it
doesn't seem to make anything happen.
//10.0.0.31/Linux /media/JonXHDD cifs noauto,iocharset=utf8,,,uid=1000 0 0
And yes, /media/JonXHDD does exist.
The only help I can find with Google is horrendously complicated. Can
anyone provide a simple solution or point me to a straightforward set of
instructions?
It might help to know that I can't get the Windows Network icon in
Nautilus/Network to open either: it just comes up with 'Failed to
retrieve share list from server'
Thanks,
Jon.
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