Hello,

I have ubuntu 11.10 (64 bit) and I am using Thunderbird as my default email client. I have a windows network drive mapped on my Ubuntu and I would like to change Thunderbird's local folders location to that windows network drive.

I tried to follow this tutorial, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_you...Thunderbird%29 , but it is not working for me.

For some reason, the browse to location doesnt give me an option to browse to the windows network drive. And if I manually enter the location, it doesnt accept it.

Did anyone ever try to do that? Is it possible? If yes, how?

As usual, many thanks in advance!

linux.girl

Hi there,

are you sure?? I wouldn't feel good if I had to trust a Windows host that saves my mails.

How did you specify the location? With a smb:// prefix? The Mozilla article mentions "local storage", so I assume it is not explicitly supported to use a network location. But when you mount the Windows share into your local file system, no program should be able to tell the difference.

[X] Doc CPU

Hi,

The decison to this is for backup reasons - that shared network is backed up, so saving local folders there makes sense (from this point of view only). Of course if I dont manage to save them there, I will have to go for other backup options.

Yes, the driver is mapped with smb:// prefix - but Thunderbird doesnt recognize it as part of the file system, I cant browse to it :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

linux.girl

Another question: where in the file system are these smb:// network drives mounted?

OK, the files were not mounted properly, now they are. I can browse to them with Thunderbird and it seems to add them ok, but when I try to open the files (now supposedly pointed to the new location), it keeps "thinking" and cant open them. I am thinking it is a permissions issue, but am not sure how to fix it.

For example, if I go to the GUI option and ask connect to a network share, choose windows share, enter the server and type, etc, it connects to the windows share and I can do with the files the same things I would if I were on a windows computer (i.e., delete, etc). BUT, if I mount the samba share on startup by adding it to /etc/fstab - then I can access the share, but I cant do much with the files (i.e., cant delete them, etc) - and I *think* this is why Thunderbird keeps trying to access them with no success. BTW, I can only browse to that location with thunderbird if the files are properly mounted via /etc/fstab. Any ideas why the difference in the permissions (?) when using different ways to connect to this share? And how can I fix it?

Thanks a lot!

linux.girl