Qnap NAS and Thunderbird

[Metal Mick]

Recently I decided Vista was just too painful on my laptop, and I replaced the hard drive and put on Ultimate Edition 2.4 64-bit.

I have a Qnap nas, and there I have all my Thunderbird files - inbox, and so forth - and I have no difficulty with nautilus file manager locating the drive nor navigating its folders. I keep my email on the nas so I can use either my laptop or my desktop (Win XP) to work, as the mood takes me.

However, when I try to create an account and set my local directories in T'bird, I cannot find a trace of the nas after I click the browse button.

Under win XP T'bird has no issue with finding or seeing the nas, which is formatted as an ext3 drive.

What do I need to do to permit t'bird in Ultimate Edition to "see" the nas drive?

Cheers,

Michael P

[Moebius]

Recently I decided Vista was just too painful on my laptop, and I replaced the hard drive and put on Ultimate Edition 2.4 64-bit.

I have a Qnap nas, and there I have all my Thunderbird files - inbox, and so forth - and I have no difficulty with nautilus file manager locating the drive nor navigating its folders. I keep my email on the nas so I can use either my laptop or my desktop (Win XP) to work, as the mood takes me.

However, when I try to create an account and set my local directories in T'bird, I cannot find a trace of the nas after I click the browse button.

Under win XP T'bird has no issue with finding or seeing the nas, which is formatted as an ext3 drive.

What do I need to do to permit t'bird in Ultimate Edition to "see" the nas drive?

Cheers,

Michael P

Hi Michael,
If your NAS is auto mounting in Ultimate Edition , then try the following.
Navigate to your Home folder (Places->Home Folder)
Press Ctrl-H to show hidden directories
Navigate to a folder called .mozilla-thunderbird.
Here you will find a file called profiles.ini. Double click the file to open it with an editor. Here you need to change the 'Path=' entry to reflect the location of your profile on the NAS drive. I have not used this method before, instead used Symbolic Links to share my emails etc.. between Windows and Ultimate Edition - I just can't find the relevant instructions at the moment. Try the above and if you get no joy, I'll keep looking.

Cheers.

[Metal Mick]

Hi Moebius,

thanks very much for your suggestion - I do appreciate you taking the time.

I tried your suggestion and found it did not work, and for some reason I kept getting a message that Thunderbird is already running when I tried to fire it up. I was then advised to reboot my system, which I duly did and found I was in a loop that yielded identical results each time I tried to launch T'bird.

I have manually mounted the nas directory, and then tried other applications - Amarok and VLC spring to mind - but opening the "add directory/file" dialog does not show the nas as an option.

My reading is that I need to mount the drive or directory in some manner in order for T'bird and the others to access it. However, I lack the knowledge to do this.

Regards,

Michael P

NB: while I think of it, I find Ultimate Edition to be a terrific flavor of linux, and I offer my congratulations to all involved on a wonderful project.

[Moebius]

My reading is that I need to mount the drive or directory in some manner in order for T'bird and the others to access it. However, I lack the knowledge to do this.

Try this link:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6&sid=ac10fd7ce64da83fb9a375817f363540#p4238

Let us know how it goes.

[Metal Mick]

Hi Moebius et al,

the link proved similar to one on the Ubuntu forums, but without, I think, the extra 13 pages.

Because there were differences in the how-to (and I learnt years ago how pedantic computers can be with syntax), I edited my fstab file to suit the instructions and it worked like a charm, more or less. In Terminal, I got the somewhat baffling message "mount point none does not exist", but the nas mounted anyway and on reboot mounted automatically.

I would like to clear up the message, but it is not overly concerning for me.

When I did a restart, the system proved a bit sluggish, with a couple of error messages on shutdown:

CIFS VFS: server not responding
CIFS VFS: no response for cmd 50 in ...

Other than that, everything is working well, and I am able to access my emails in Ultimate Edition without problem.

Many thanks for your help.

Goodnight from sunny Australia!

Michael P

[Moebius]

Goodnight from sunny Australia!

Michael P

You're obviously not from Tassie then....
Thats O.K. you Mainlanders will catch up one day

If you can't resolve the new error message, start up a new topic with a relevant subject description and we'll see if someone can shed some light for you.

Cheers Big Ears.

[Metal Mick]

Hi Moebius, et al,

my machine is shutting down and rebooting without trouble, although the second of the error messages I mentioned on shutdown refers to slightly different addresses each time as far as I can tell. Overall, about 10-15 seconds is added to shutdown while my machine gathers its thoughts. If it continues to bother me, I will start a new thread.

Question: I placed a similar posting on the official Ubuntu forums and got no answer. Would the moderators mind if I finished-off my thread with the link you provided - it is far more easy to work with than the 14 or so pages on their site?

My apologies for not reading your location, Moebius. No slight was intended, I just assumed you were based across the Pacific. I had the great pleasure to holiday in Launceston (again) a little under a year ago. It truly is a wonderful place to live. I will return soon, I hope.

Regards,

Michael P

[Moebius]

Hi again,
No problems in sharing the knowledge but would be nice if you credited the original poster for his/her work.
No slight taken - both heads didn't take offence.

Never know, might bump into you one day in downtown Lonnie.

Cheers.