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How do I get my shared disk back on line in Ubuntu 13.04
I have a folder on my disk which I share over the LAN so my wife can do backups to it. It has worked since I can remember. Now I've updated to 13.04 and suddenly I no longer see it or even my computer ...
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Why does Nautilus take so long to display content of folder on NFS share?
I have a file server running which servers NFS and SAMBA. Although I get much higher transfer rates with NFS, and also listing the content of a folder with ls in the terminal is fast, it takes ages to ...
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Why can't I browse windows shares although I can connect to them?
In Nautilus I can connect to Windows shares using 'Connect to', but I can't browse to them in the network area. They don't show up. My Linux samba shares show up, but not the windows machines.
What's ...
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Ubuntu desktop 12.04 cannot connect to samba shares
I am new to ubuntu, but making progress. I have a server set up on console mode and configured samba. I am able to connect to these samba shares using my Windows 7 clients.
I installed Ubuntu ...
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How does Nautilus mount Windows network drives?
When I browse my local network, I can access the windows drives of a Windows machine without any issue. Everything is visible, shared or not shared folders. I have full permissions.
I notice that ...
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How to make nautilus forget saved password?
I am browsing Shared folders on a Windows network through Samba.
When I first opened a system on the network I was asked for a login username, password and I checked the save-password setting. Now ...
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FTP access to a windows machine on LAN?
I am on a LAN network on which most of the systems are Windows based and only I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
I want to access the Shared folders on these systems using my ubuntu.
I have installed samba ...
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Permissions fail to change, even using sudo nautilus
I've read a lot of threads here but still can't seem to make this work: I'm trying to share various folders (any folders whatsoever) on HDDs other than "File System" over the LAN using fresh install ...
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What is the difference between a Samba share and the Nautilus share method?
So, my server finally died (good old 10 year old machine, minimum). I was running Mandriva on it using samba to share some data areas for backups and storage (had added a SATA card and some 1TB ...
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How can I restore remote mounts after sleep/suspend?
I have a Synology DiskStation NAS that I occasionally mount with my Ubuntu 12.04.1 laptop. To mount it, I open Nautilus (3.4.2), click Browse Network, double-click the DiskStation, and enter my ...
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Nautilus copies files but not directories from samba server on OS X
I need to copy files from OS X on a Mac to Ubuntu on a PC. I enabled File Sharing on the Mac and selected the samba option. I was then able to connect to the samba server in Nautilus. Copying files ...
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Samba Transfers Stop
I'm having this problem since I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and it's driving me insane.
I have a NAS (DNS-320) that is running Samba. When I try to transfer a folder that has many other files inside it's ...
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How to get sharing options to stick - ubuntu 12.04
I'm having a really hard time trying to get my sharing set up on my 12.04 system.
I've tried both desktop version and server - I'm a bit of a linux n00b, so I need a GUI, command line is beyond me ...
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Samba shares on Ubuntu don't report free space
I'm connecting to a DNS-323 network storage from my Ubuntu 12.04 Computer. The connection to the two shared drives from the NAS is working fine but there is no way I can look at the free space on each ...
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ubuntu 12.04 - nautilus and samba
Ok I have been reading just about all the help I can get here.
I have a media server running mythtv 12.04 and I plan on using it as a file server as well.
All of the shares are visable from windows ...
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How to search a network share?
Usually when I want to find a particular file on my local machine, I'll open up a terminal and do find . -name "*blah*" from the directory which I want to search within. Now I want to search from a ...
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Is there supposed to be a Windows Network folder in the file manager?
I pulled my hard drive out of my computer and started with a bootable usb version of Ubuntu, which I am using that at this point.
At first boot, I see that there is a Windows folder when browsing ...
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How do I mount an Active Directory Windows share?
How can i mount Active Directory Windows share in Ubuntu 12.04?
In 10.04 it was easy mounting a Windows server share i nautilus, but it keeps telling me that my credentials is wrong. And they are not!
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Network share 'remember forever' option doesn't work
I use Ubuntu 11.10 with xfce & gnome, and am dependent on company network infrastructure for windows shares (as well as Outlook, but more on that later). So I also fall under their password ...
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Samba: Cannot see Shared folders
i'm trying to connect my laptop to pc thorugh LAN (both are ubuntu) because i need to grab some data there. the problem is when i browse network section in nautilus i cannot see folder list that i ...
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Unable to upload directly from network drive to picasaweb
My network drive is bookmarked and clearly visible in nautilus.
One little thing that I do not like in ubuntu is that network drives are not always available from applications. Last time I have ...
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Nautilus/Samba Mount Problem
On a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04, I have several Nautilus bookmarks to mount various Windows (7 and 2003) shares on my home network, accessed thru OpenVPN. I have full rights to all of these shares, and ...
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How to automount a gvfs file system on logon
I configured a remote folder in nautilus. I always need this remote folder, so I created a symbolic link to it in my home folder: ln -s ~/.gvfs/remote_folder ~/remote_folder.
Though, when I first ...
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Cannot connect to Samba share from Nautilus
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to connect to my Samba shares which are on a DLink DNS323.
From Nautilus in "Places" -> "Network" I can easily navigate to the DND323 and see the available ...
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Sharing Guest Account Disabled
In Nautilus when trying to share a folder that is owned by me, i can not share it without a password (Guest Access) as seen on the image. I already installed the samba service that was needed. What ...
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Why does Samba always time-out whilst copying a large file off a network share?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (natty), kernel 2.6.38-8-generic, GNOME 2.32.1.
EDIT: As of 3 April 2012 I'm now on kernel 2.6.38-13-generic (still same Ubuntu and GNOME). The problem still persists.
I ...
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Nautilus file copy from smb://server/share is 25Msec but when I mount its 4Msec
Folks:
When I open nautilus in 11.04, browse network -> MSHOME -> SERVERNAME -> SHARE and do a copy, I get gigabit speed at around 25 megs a sec to local disk.
When I mount in fstab with
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Nautilus file share for multiple users is not working. Only owner gets access
I have always had trouble setting up samba shares with ubuntu. In the past I've tried getting it to work by configuring /etc/samba/smb.conf but never achieved what I wanted. Last time I managed to get ...
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How can I stop Ubuntu from automatically unmounting Samba shares?
I have some music files I'd like to listen to sitting on a Samba share. I added this share via the Ubuntu GUI (Places -> Connect to server...), and everything worked just fine.
However, despite the ...
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Nautilus bookmarks and smb shares work with non-root user
I'm having a problem with Nautilus in Ubuntu 10.10
When I open Nautilus as common user, it shows bookmarks and the bookmarks that point to smb windows shares work fine.
However, if I start Nautilus ...
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How do I see all of the directories shared using Nautilus Sharing Options?
When you share a directory using samba, you can do this system-wide by editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file (the advanced way) or by right-clicking a directory using Nautilus and selecting 'Sharing ...
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How to enable user sharing per instructions?
I have this entry in .xsession-errors log
"Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned
error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory ...
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