external network drive (connnected to router)

[TALON]

Through the linux network folder, this drive is accessible, but not through the programs I have installed. The drive has a local IP of 192.168.1.4. I would like this drive to show up in <Places>, but other than the Network Folder. Can anyone help? Yes this is my first experience with Linux so any help would be great!

[hybrid]

Through the linux network folder, this drive is accessible, but not through the programs I have installed. The drive has a local IP of 192.168.1.4. I would like this drive to show up in <Places>, but other than the Network Folder. Can anyone help? Yes this is my first experience with Linux so any help would be great!

 

Welcome to Linux-noob!

 

In order to understand this in more detail, it will be helpful to know some specifics. What type of network drive is it (do you have a make and model number)? Also, which distribution of Linux are you using and which version (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04)?

[TALON]

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Through the linux network folder, this drive is accessible, but not through the programs I have installed. The drive has a local IP of 192.168.1.4. I would like this drive to show up in <Places>, but other than the Network Folder. Can anyone help? Yes this is my first experience with Linux so any help would be great!

 

Welcome to Linux-noob!

 

In order to understand this in more detail, it will be helpful to know some specifics. What type of network drive is it (do you have a make and model number)? Also, which distribution of Linux are you using and which version (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04)?



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The Drive is a Western Digital * Model: WDH1NC10000 and yes, I am running Ubuntu 10.4. Thanks for your help.

[hybrid]

There are a couple of ways you could go about this. Unfortunately, it is not (to my knowledge) very easy to actually get the shared folder to show up in your global Places menu.

 

First of all, go to Network as you do at the moment and open up the folder that you want access to. It should show up in the sidebar of your File Browser window and have a little eject logo beside it.

 

You say you can't access your files through some programs. I don't know exactly which programs you mean, but in most Open/Save dialogue boxes, you will find a mini-Places sidebar in the window itself, which should list your shared folder if you have followed the process above first.

 

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Alternatively, (and this is a little fiddly, but should work) if you are using some applications which don't have that sidebar, you will find the shared folder inside a hidden folder called .gvfs in your Home folder. You may need to choose 'Go to Folder' or similar, and type in ~/.gvfs, but then you should be able to access your files.

 

The other way you could go about this is to manually 'mount' your shared folder. This would mean that the contents of your shared folder on the drive would be sort of 'attached' to a local folder on your Linux system and that is where you would look on the filesystem to see your shared files. This process is a lot more complicated, however, and since this is your first experience with Linux, I'd recommend trying the above first! If you do want to go down the route of mounting your shared folder, there are detailed technical instructions here. We can help you with that if you'd like, but again, this is a much more advanced and technical solution which would need some use of the terminal.

[TALON]

Looks like the .gvfs option is working. Of course, it would have helped if I had checked the box shared folders under(System/Preferences/Main Menu )so I could see it in the menu and then install the application.lol I appreciate the help.

[Dungeon-Dave]

No worries, it's all part of a noob experience: light has shone where there was previously none!

 

If you want the drive to be "permanently attached" then you'll need to add a new entry into the /etc/fstab file so that this network drive appears as an accessible directory (presumably within your home folder somewhere). However this can cause booting issues - client can stall if the neworked drive isn't available - so your manual process may be safer for now.