[Sussex] accessing mounted shares in Ubuntu

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:46:25AM +0100, Paul Howard wrote:
> Morning all,
> 
> I am running Ubuntu (fiesty) and have got several windows shares mounted
> using the "connect to server" option.
> 
> I am trying to use Grysnc to sync my home folder as a backup onto one of
> the windows shares but none of the mounted drives appear anywhere in my
> file structure.
> 
> I would have assumed they would be in either /mnt  or /media but they
> don't appear anywhere.

They won't :-) They part of the gnome virtual file system which most
Gnome apps make use of. Basically gnome implements a user-level
abstraction for this... If you double-click on the "Computer" icon on
your desktop, they will appear at the same level as the local file
system - i.e. they're not *in* the file system.

> Any ideas on how to access these mounted shares from an application?

Are you sure you need to ? If you just want to synchronize files, unison
should fit the bill - there are binaries available for windows too:
    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
(probably available on other URLs too)

If you *do* need to access it, you will need to mount it to make it part
of the file system (root privs required).

There's lots of variations on this -
    http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/HowToMountsmbfsSharesPermanently 
should help you out.

Hope this helps
-- 
Karl E. Jorgensen
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