taking Neal's question
(How to access extra HD from user account) a little further
the machine I use for testing is currently multibooting XP, antix, mint, puppy etc and has 10 partitions - some ext - some ntfs
one of which has swift installed on it (ext4)
currently I CAN access external media, cd/dvd at install and USB HDD (not certain if the USB HDD was fixed by mountpy I installed it for my problem before trying an external disk)
after installing winbind and smbfs I can access network shares from windows machines and NAS boxes ...
but can't get access to any of the other paritions on the hard disk - Authentication is required accessing directly or right click | mount.
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