How to open image from network drive

[Nathan Gutman]

Using Ubuntu and Gimp. Would like to be able to open for editing an
image from a network drive.
"Open" or "Open location" does not recognize the drive/folder on another
computer on the network?
Any trick to do that?
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Nathan Gutman

[Fr@nk Stef@ni]

Nathan Gutman schrieb:

Linux is network transparent, so if Linux sees that drive,
Gimp will see it also.

Have you mounted the network drive to a local folder, eg.

mount foreign.host:/foreign/folder /local/folder

This must be done as root and you might automize it.

HTH, Frank

[Nathan Gutman]

Thanks, Ubuntu sees the drive but Gimp doesn't. I am shaky about the
mount command and wonder where could I get more detailed syntax examples.

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Nathan Gutman

[Helmut Jarausch]

Make sure you have permissions to cd to the mount point and the read the files.
What does
ls -ld /local/folder
say?

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[Nathan Gutman]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Nathan Gutman wrote:
>> Fr@nk Stef@ni wrote:
>>> Nathan Gutman schrieb:
>>>> Using Ubuntu and Gimp. Would like to be able to open for editing an
>>>> image from a network drive.
>>>> "Open" or "Open location" does not recognize the drive/folder on
>>>> another
>>>> computer on the network?
>>>> Any trick to do that?
>>>
>>> Linux is network transparent, so if Linux sees that drive,
>>> Gimp will see it also.
>>>
>>> Have you mounted the network drive to a local folder, eg.
>>>
>>> mount foreign.host:/foreign/folder /local/folder
>>>
>>> This must be done as root and you might automize it.
>>>
>>> HTH, Frank
>> Thanks, Ubuntu sees the drive but Gimp doesn't. I am shaky about the
>> mount command and wonder where could I get more detailed syntax examples.
>>
>
> Make sure you have permissions to cd to the mount point and the read the
> files.
> What does
> ls -ld /local/folder
> say?
>

If type that in literally I get "No such file or directory".
Do I need to substitute anything for "local" and "folder"?

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Nathan Gutman

[John K. Herreshoff]

Nathan Gutman wrote:

Heh! /local/folder is an example of the network directory that is mounted
on your computer. So just type ls -ld /network-directory, using the
correct name of the directory. Another thing to try is cd to the network
directory mounted on your computer, and type ls -ld.

HTH.

(Network mounting can be a bit confusing until the light turns on. Keep on
pestering with questions until you get it.)

John.

--
jkherr at power - net dot net (wipe the spaces)

[Nathan Gutman]

The way I understand nothing is mounted because I have not executed the
suggested command:
mount foreign.host:/foreign/folder /local/folder
I have no idea what to insert into this command.
I can find and access the desired files on the networked computer by
using Places>Network.

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Nathan Gutman

[Nathan Gutman]

Making progress sloooow. Figured out that I need to make a mount point
so I created /media/Photos4600.
Now I need to understand this syntax word by word to know what
substitute where. I understand that local/folder would become
/media/Photos4600, right?
What do I replace /foreign/folder with?
On the Windows computer the desired folder is on Microsoft Windows
Network/Home/Dell4600/My Photos on 4600.
Can someone please help me to unravel this.

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Nathan Gutman

[Fr@nk Stef@ni]

Nathan Gutman schrieb:

> Fr@nk Stef@ni wrote:
>> Nathan Gutman schrieb:
>>> Using Ubuntu and Gimp. Would like to be able to open for editing an
>>> image from a network drive.
>>> "Open" or "Open location" does not recognize the drive/folder on another
>>> computer on the network?
>>> Any trick to do that?
>>
>> Linux is network transparent, so if Linux sees that drive,
>> Gimp will see it also.
>>
>> Have you mounted the network drive to a local folder, eg.
>>
>> mount foreign.host:/foreign/folder /local/folder
>>
>> This must be done as root and you might automize it.
>>
>> HTH, Frank
> Making progress sloooow. Figured out that I need to make a mount point
> so I created /media/Photos4600.
> Now I need to understand this syntax word by word to know what
> substitute where. I understand that local/folder would become
> /media/Photos4600, right?

Right :)

> What do I replace /foreign/folder with?

Depends on where this folder is located. You may need the hostname
and the whole path to the foreign folder, that's what I meant by

mount foreign.host:/foreign/folder /local/folder

So, for your needs, it might read something like

mount your_windows_box:/Network/Home/Dell4600/My\ Photos\ on\ 4600

NB: Take care of white spaces in file and folder names, btw.,
thus I masked them with a backslash!

> On the Windows computer the desired folder is on Microsoft Windows
> Network/Home/Dell4600/My Photos on 4600.
> Can someone please help me to unravel this.

I wrote this just to encourage you ;) As I'm not a Windows/Samba
guru, I don't know how to be more specific ... but you'll get it!

Frank