Gcode sharing folder ( Debian / Windows 7)

You can use VNC for complete remote control of the desktop environment, use samba or smb for network shares, use lisa daemon for finding network shares or use pynetwork for the same, use NFS for full access over the network, use FTP server and Filezilla with a GUI to transfer files, use SSH and terminal, etc etc etc.

You can load within gmoccapy a file from any network location as a shared nertwork folder is also only a folder for linux!

Just mount the share at startup and you will be able to navigate to that folder.

Norbert

Mounting a share is one of the most confusing things. Everybody says just mount it but it is hard to find a step by step tutorial so it would be great if somebody could point us in the right direction o a complete example

This is more confusing today becasue Mint and other distros allow you to browse the network but if it not mounted to a folder programs like gmoccappy and heaps of others can't see it.

The closest I've come to is this which works for me, but I have been unable to make it stick so it mounts on startup
This mounts my home folder on my Synology NAS to the folder /media/ds

The problem is there are multiple ways to do this, with different variations required depending on the Linux distribution and version that you are using. My best suggestion is to Google mounting a windows share with your specific distro. Most of my cnc mount the network share with a line in fstab. But I have also used a sim link to a .gvfs directory. Gvfs is how the gui apps usually see network file systems.

Yeh, I moved that command to fstab. and got no errors when testing but after rebooting the folder is empty on startup. Very annoying such a simple thing is so hard.

Rod

Allegedly you need to edit the /ect/fstab file by adding the following line or something close to it with the highlighted text changed to your system:

//192.168.1.129/share1 /mnt/shares/share1 cifs username=user1name ,password=user1password 0 0


Description:

mount.cifs – Mount using the CIFS
//192.168.1.107/share1/ – IP address or name of file server followed by the share name
/mnt/shares/share1/ – This is the mount point where our network share will reside
-o users=user1,password=user1 – This means options and in my case I am specifying the username and password to the share
Mount Public Share

To mount a public share or one that doesn’t require a password is even easier. All you are required to specify is the server IP address, share and mount point.

mount.cifs //192.168.1.107/share1/ /mnt/shares/share1/
mount.cifs – Mount using the CIFS
//192.168.1.107/share1/ – IP address or name of file server followed by share name
/mnt/shares/share1/ – This is the mount point where our network share will reside

You may need this altered some what look at you man pages or online about mounting networked drives. I have not been able to get this this to work at all. I keep getting the notorious error 79 even though I have all of character mapping files installed. Good luck and share what works.

John