Hello everyone I have a windows network with a freenas server that I can access ok through the file manager however there are 2 programs I have installed namely pyrenamer & Freefilesync that doesn't list any network shares, If I want to rename files on my server using pyrenamer I have to copy the folder over to a local source rename them then copy back because the program will only list local files, I have the same problem with freefile sync only copying files to a local directory isn't an option as the folders are too big, does anyone know if there is any I can get my network folders to show up in these programs, any help would be much apreciated

Many Thanks
Graeme

Hi there,

have you mapped the network shares to a drive letter on the Windows box? - Because still today, many Windows programs cannot deal with Network Neighborhood directly, but once you map the shares to a drive letter, they can access it fine that way.

[X] Doc CPU

Hi Doc thanks for your reply, I'm not sure I understand you correctly, The programs I'm using are Linux programs although it's a Windows network share (MSHOME)I'm using Mint 11,Linux sees the shares in Nautilus ok and I can access them no problem, The problem only occurs when I try to access them within a program such as freefilesync which is only listing local folders, The folders I want to synchronize are both on a Freenas server connected to the network, i hope I'm explaining the problem ok, I,m quite new to Linux and I'm finding it a bit difficult explaining the problem but I'll try to answer any questions as clearly as I can any help would be much appreciated

Many Thanks
Graeme

Hi there,

hmm, I'm confused and probably misunderstood you. I your initial post you said:

I understood that you have one or more windows PCs that acess a FreeNAS server. Was I wrong? Why do you say "although it's a Windows network share"? That assumes (for my understanding) a network of Windows PCs. Still confused .oO(?)

Well, that part was described fine, I think. Yet I miss an important detail: Do you access the files through Nautilus's integrated Samba client (then you would use the Go/Network menu in Nautilus and see "smb://servername/sharename" in the address bar), or do you have the FreeNAS shares mounted into the file system (then they have an address that looks like a local directory)?
Many programs can only access shared files and directories if they are mounted into the file system.

To mount a network share, use the following:
where the parts in italics are placeholders. Replace them as follows:
user: The required user name for accessing the share
pass: The above user's password
servername: Obviously, the server's name (may be IP address as well)
sharename: The shared directory name
mountpoint: An empty local directory, where you wish the contents of the shared directory to appear.

The sudo command makes the entire instruction run as root, that's why you'll have to enter root's password on the console when you execute that command.

[X] Doc CPU

Hi
Once again apologies for the duplicate thread,

Quote:I understood that you have one or more windows PCs that acess a FreeNAS server. Was I wrong? Why do you say "although it's a Windows network share"? That assumes (for my understanding) a network of Windows PCs. Still confused .oO(?)

I'll try to be more clear, The network I have consists 2 PCs and a Freenas server 1 PC runs win xp only the other is dual boot win xp & Linux Mint, The network works perfectly in both windows installation, I called it a windows share because the network was initially set up in windows and has the windows workgroup name of MSHOME, Linux lists it as windows share so that's why I called a windows network,

Quote: Why don't you try to properly mount the shares on your Mint or Ubuntu machine and get rid of the trouble in a clean way?

That's exactly what I want to do but I couldn't work out how to do it I'm not particularly computer literate and have a very limited understanding of the command line, but I will try the command you listed tonight when I get home from work, Can you tell me will that permanently mount them or will I have to do that each time I log in ?

Many Thanks

Graeme

Hi Doc I did as you suggested but I think I must have the syntax wrong for some reason I can't copy and paste the command I put in but this what I entered " sudo mount -t cifs -o username=graeme password=gsy464f freenas:/serverdrive 1 freenas" I created a folder in my home directory called freenas to act as the mountpoint

My Details
Username: graeme
Password: gsy464f
Server Name: freenas
Share Name: Serverdrive 1 (Also to be mounted serverdrive 2,3,4 and 5
Mountpoint: freenas

can you please tell me if you see something wrong ?

Many Thanks

Graeme