AspireOne within a network

[mikepost]

Thanks Fabien, but i too am getting "Mount Failed".Any ideas gratefully received thanks! :mrgreen:

...the same "Mount Failed"! :?:

I made the directory change as described and was still unsucessful, "unable to mount". Any more suggestions?

This is because, as a regular user, you don't have write access to default mount directory /mnt/lan. Under Preference dialog, change that directory to something like /home/user/lan (you have to create this directory first) and it should work.

That's right, I forgot you have to change user/group properties on the /mnt/lan folder or create it as cheos said in order to work properly with the user account. This is probably why you have the failed to mount error.

To change user and group owner, open a terminal and type

sudo su
chown user.user /mnt/lan

After that it would work.

I've followed the instructions and everything has succeeded except for the chown command above. I keep getting "chown: cannot access '/mnt/lan': No such file or directory".

I've opened pyNeighborhood and changed the settings advised, and manually added the drive that I'm trying to connect to. It adds correctly but I get the cannot mount error, presumably due to the fact that I haven't yet taken ownership of it.

Any advice would be gratefully received!

 

[BlueNoser]

I had a couple of probelm with the pyNeighborhood install.

I didn't have /mnt/lan so I could not change ownership

So I made the /lan then chown.

In PyNeighborhood-0.4.1 .... pyNeighborhood was "command not found"

Dir said it was...

Any suggestions?

BlueNoser

 

[BlueNoser]

Sorry if this post is a duplicate... the registration process left me wanting slightly:

 

[BlueNoser]

.Never mind. I got it.

I opened a new TERMINAL as user not root and it worked fine.

I found my machines.

Can't mount my win98 machine yet.....

 

[palingenesis]

Thanks Fabien, but i too am getting "Mount Failed".Any ideas gratefully received thanks! :mrgreen:

...the same "Mount Failed"! :?:

I made the directory change as described and was still unsucessful, "unable to mount". Any more suggestions?

This is because, as a regular user, you don't have write access to default mount directory /mnt/lan. Under Preference dialog, change that directory to something like /home/user/lan (you have to create this directory first) and it should work.

That's right, I forgot you have to change user/group properties on the /mnt/lan folder or create it as cheos said in order to work properly with the user account. This is probably why you have the failed to mount error.

To change user and group owner, open a terminal and type

sudo su
chown user.user /mnt/lan

After that it would work.

I've followed the instructions and everything has succeeded except for the chown command above. I keep getting "chown: cannot access '/mnt/lan': No such file or directory".

I've opened pyNeighborhood and changed the settings advised, and manually added the drive that I'm trying to connect to. It adds correctly but I get the cannot mount error, presumably due to the fact that I haven't yet taken ownership of it.

Any advice would be gratefully received!

I have the same problem. Any help?

 

[cedher]

I got everything to work, would not find the machines first, but after I added (Edit Add Machine) them with IP adress it was no problems.

I also got the chown: "cannot access '/mnt/lan': No such file or directory", had to create it first with the command "mkdir /mnt/lan/", after that it was no problems.

I got another question.
How can I make a shortcut to the program? as I would prefer to start it though an icon instead of through the terminal window.

 

[bazarov]

I hope someone can help me here. I followed Fabien's instructions, but:

1. Received the install error: sub-folder '/icons' doesn't exist, during make install. There are no sub-folders in the pyNeighborhood folder after expanding pyNeighborhood-0.4.1.tar.bz2.

2. This line stops me proceeding:

pyNeighborhood

returns the error:

/usr/local/bin/pyNeighborhood: line 27: cd: /usr/local/bin/pyNeighborhood/src: No such file or directory

Thanks

 

[grwkak]

I continue to have a failed to mount message.

Installed pyNeighborhood as described here and with the described changes to the options. Added a mount directory under /home/user/lan and specified in the program options.

Had a similar problem with OpenSuSE and resolved by (using a GUI) changing the UID on mount.cifs and umount.cifs - no such option appears using file manager on the Aspire and sudo is specified in the options.

I can scan for shares - that works.

Any other thoughts???

Guy

 

[grwkak]

Update - check the error logs in ./pyneighborhood (home/user directory - show hidden files needs to be enabled in the file browser) it said could not find mount.cifs

Turns out I have to specify the location of mount.cifs and umount.cifs (/sbin)

Still will not mount a share but the errors in the error log are now different - will post later.

Update 2 - needed to remove sudo from mount.cifs and umount.cifs and use chmod to set the uid bit for the two.

chmod +s `/sbin/mount.cifs (assuming it is in /sbin) may need to run this as root

Now it mounts shares, but can not scan workgroups -seems to be authentication problem

 

[Fjelldal]

No problems until "chown user.user /mnt/lan" - /mnt/lan - no such directory -
any advice ?

 

[grwkak]

Covered previously in this topic - create a directory /home/user/lan this you should "own". Tell pyNeighborhood in the options that this is where shares should be mounted.

Guy

 

[b4k4]

for me pyNeighborhood has to be launched with full path:
/usr/local/bin/pyNeighborhood
that might help a couple of others here.


EDIT: removed silly question that was my mistake.

 

[grwkak]

Create your own directory under /home/user (I call mine lan). Then change the options in pyNeighborhood to use that directory for mounting shares.

Guy

 

[BlueNoser]

You have to manually make the directory.

 

[namaste]

Help

I tried to install py , but after install make and gcc ... ./configure and make commands are ok, but with the command make install i have the following output.....


[root@localhost pyNeighborhood-0.4.1]# make install
`which python` ./compile
Listing . ...
install -d //usr/local/bin
install pyNeighborhood //usr/local/bin
install -d //usr/local/share/applications
install --mode=644 pyNeighborhood.desktop //usr/local/share/applications
install -d //usr/local/share/pyNeighborhood/icons
install --mode=644 icons/*.png //usr/local/share/pyNeighborhood/icons
install: cannot stat `icons/*.png': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1


thanks in advance for any help...

 

[bunmaster2000]

Clarification regarding the errors involving non-existence of the /mnt/lan directory:

Should I create only this directory, or also the /home/user/lan directory?

If Fabien is still around, maybe he could edit the original directions to include this code?

 

[sanger]

pyNeighborhood worked great. I can now mount shared folders on my Windows XP machine. I even managed to get a shortcut to the shared network folder on the simplified desktop.

One question though. How can I make pyNeighborhood automount the shares on startup?

 

[sanger]

I have the same problem. Just re-extract the archive with Full Paths enabled, repeat the instructions and it will work fine.

Help

I tried to install py , but after install make and gcc ... ./configure and make commands are ok, but with the command make install i have the following output.....


[root@localhost pyNeighborhood-0.4.1]# make install
`which python` ./compile
Listing . ...
install -d //usr/local/bin
install pyNeighborhood //usr/local/bin
install -d //usr/local/share/applications
install --mode=644 pyNeighborhood.desktop //usr/local/share/applications
install -d //usr/local/share/pyNeighborhood/icons
install --mode=644 icons/*.png //usr/local/share/pyNeighborhood/icons
install: cannot stat `icons/*.png': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1


thanks in advance for any help...

 

[Chase_this]

Hi,

Nice, I am able to access the shared folder on my XP machine, unfortunately I can't access the shared folder on my Ubuntu 8.4 hardy machine. The shared folder allows access by guests and I am able to access the folder from my Vista laptop, my XP machine and a Ubuntu laptop. Any suggestions??

Nice 4 different kind of operating systems within 3 square feet...

 

[Hyperjoe]

ok, problems intalling this.

I get to
cd /home/user/Downloads
tar -xvjf pyNeighborhood-0.4.1.tar.bz2

and I first type in
cd /home/user/Downloads

and it shows that I am at rootlocalhost Downloads then I type in this
tar -xvjf pyNeighborhood-0.4.1.tar.bz2

then it tells me that Child return status 2
Error exit delayed from previous errors.

what gives? Also, I can not copy and past into terminal or whatever program I am typing this stuff into. Help please.