On 19 Feb 22:03, Chris G wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:34:40PM +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi
It arrived a few minutes ago! Yay! I thought I'd be clever and plug it into my laptop to see where the mount point is, and it was /media/Extended... Then I plugged it into my Ubuntu Server machine and
With forward slashes, does your laptop run linux/unix?
Yeah, Ubuntu. It would be a bit pointless if it didn't. ;-)
now I can't find the mount point.
Any suggestions, please?
Do you have Samba and all its bits and pieces running on your Ubuntu server machine?
Not sure. Do I need them?
Sorry, just had a somewhat liquid supper so I'm not at my brightest and best.
If it's just a USB drive then I'm talking rubbish, hopefully your Ubuntu server should just see it.
And it does, and we've sorted it (offlist ;) - basic summary: Ubuntu Server doesn't tend to be running the gnome-mount deamony thing that automagically mounts drives to /media, this is a *GOOD* thing on a server. So, instead, you plug the drive in and find what the kernel assigns as the device node (usually /dev/sd[a-z]) and the partition number for the partition you're interested in, add a line to /etc/fstab (assuming that the drive is going to be permanently attached) to automount the drive to the right place (the udev rules should have already created a persistant mapping for it, so all should be well).
Just summerising here incase anyone else needs to know.
Cheers,