GMailFS HOWTO: Guide to Using Your GMail Account as a Linux File - Page 2

aroche · 07-03-2006, 02:24 PM

ok sounds good to me , can ask do i am still new to linux so i very much still learning what file would it be looking for?

And also where do i get a copy of openssl-proxy package ? do you think there is an RPM ?

aroche · 07-03-2006, 02:26 PM

ok so i check the website 0.9.8 is the latest (i think) and thats the version im using, is there maybe a package im missing ?

aroche · 07-03-2006, 02:33 PM

also sorry i can replying i did try this on fedora core 5 and i still get the same messages.

What version of linux did you get it to work on ?

drkstr · 07-03-2006, 03:20 PM

From http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg00162.html

Quote:

<snip>
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-419
2006-04-19
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : m2crypto
Version : 0.15
Release : 3.2.fc5.1
Summary : Support for using OpenSSL in python scripts.
Description :
This package allows you to call OpenSSL functions from python scripts.
<snip>
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update m2crypto' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.

It looks like you need to update the m2crypto package in Fedora Core 5 to use SSL with python scripts. Let me know if you need any further help with this.

regards,
...aaron

fakie_flip · 07-04-2006, 05:29 PM

I followed the instructions and installed all of these packages from repositories on xubuntu:
fuse fuse-source python-fuse gmailfs python-libgmail

I get this error when trying to mount gmailfs:

Code:

chris@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /media/gmail
mount: unknown filesystem type 'gmailfs'
chris@ubuntu:~$

drkstr · 07-04-2006, 05:54 PM

I don't know anything about ubuntu, sorry. Did the Ubuntu packages install everything to the right place?

/usr/bin/gmailfs.py
/sbin/mount.gmailfs
/etc/gmailfs.conf

mount.gmailfs is the file system hack. If the files are not in the right place, try moving them around or installing it from scratch by following the directions in the HOWTO.

regards,
...aaron

fakie_flip · 07-05-2006, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drkstr

I don't know anything about ubuntu, sorry. Did the Ubuntu packages install everything to the right place?

/usr/bin/gmailfs.py
/sbin/mount.gmailfs
/etc/gmailfs.conf

mount.gmailfs is the file system hack. If the files are not in the right place, try moving them around or installing it from scratch by following the directions in the HOWTO.

regards,
...aaron

chris@ubuntu:~$ sudo updatedb
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate gmailfs.py
/usr/share/gmailfs/gmailfs.py
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate mount.gmailfs
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.gmailfs.8.gz
/usr/bin/mount.gmailfs
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate gmailfs.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gmailfs.conffiles
/etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf
chris@ubuntu:~$

Oxagast · 07-05-2006, 08:16 PM

Can you actually use it like a normal disk? In the sence that, could you, persay, compile in the mounted directory, something like that? (not that you would really want to I suppose, it would be very slow, even on a T3 line like we have at school.)

drkstr · 07-11-2006, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Can you actually use it like a normal disk? In the sence that, could you, persay, compile in the mounted directory, something like that? (not that you would really want to I suppose, it would be very slow, even on a T3 line like we have at school.)

yes, it's just like haveing a mounted partition. All the inodes and fs system are simulated with gmailfs.py, but it is veerryyy slow if you are updating a lot of small files like if you were to compile.

Quote:

chris@ubuntu:~$ sudo updatedb
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate gmailfs.py
/usr/share/gmailfs/gmailfs.py
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate mount.gmailfs
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.gmailfs.8.gz
/usr/bin/mount.gmailfs
chris@ubuntu:~$ slocate gmailfs.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gmailfs.conffiles
/etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf
chris@ubuntu:~$

I'm not sure what your're saying here. The files are definitely in the wrong place. Did you try fixing them?

note: /usr/bin is probably not in the root users $PATH which means 'mount' will not be able to find mount.gmailfs. If you do not want to move the files around, try passing the full path as the file system.

...aaron

bruse · 07-14-2006, 08:55 AM

hi i followed ur syntax i got this error.

debian:/home/masternode/Desktop/mail/gmailfs-0.7.2# mount /mnt/gmail/
Ignored option :rw
Ignored option :noauto
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sbin/mount.gmailfs", line 164, in ?
main(mountpoint, namedOptions, useEncfs)
File "/sbin/mount.gmailfs", line 90, in main
gmailfs.main(mountpoint, namedOptions)
File "/usr/bin/gmailfs.py", line 1130, in main
server = Gmailfs(mountpoint, **namedOptions)
File "/usr/bin/gmailfs.py", line 542, in __init__
Fuse.__init__(self, mountpoint, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fuse.py", line 543, in __init__
self.fuse_args = \
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fuse.py", line 56, in __init__
SubOptsHive.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fuseparts/subbedopts.py", line 26, in __init__
self.optlist = set([])
NameError: global name 'set' is not defined
debian:/home/masternode/Desktop/mail/gmailfs-0.7.2#

drkstr · 07-15-2006, 03:14 AM

Quote:

hi i followed ur syntax i got this error.

Does 'lsmod' show the fuse module loaded? You might need to modprobe it manually. I remember getting a similar error when I was first playing around with this. It was caused by me doing something incorrectly during the set up. Unfortunatly I don't remember what it was that caused it.

...aaron

bruse · 07-15-2006, 07:51 AM

Hi i already loaded that module by #modprobe fuse
But still not works.Can u pls guess what has caused this error.

diilbert · 07-17-2006, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powadha

Or you can just save the trouble and install the Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/

I've played a bit with libgmail for fun a while back and found it very buggy and slow. Perhaps it has become better but well, too much work for very little gain. The extension installs in seconds and does the job.

Just for the fun of getting it to work this is a nice howto though.

I appreciate the effort and I have worked a few hours trying to get this to work. To the point where I can't get the gmailfs to mount properly, but I think for know the gSpace extension will do the trick.

Thanks for the link

lieuquocdat · 07-19-2006, 02:49 AM

Show me the way to config my SMB server as Doamin in which most of windows PC can connectto it to be offered authentication accesess
and share disk

drkstr · 07-20-2006, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Show me the way to config my SMB server as Doamin in which most of windows PC can connectto it to be offered authentication accesess
and share disk

I'm not really sure what your asking, or what this has to do with GmailFS, but I think 'man ntlm_auth' is what your looking for. Can't help you any more then that; I don't use windows, sorry.

regards,
...drkstr