[PLUG] Resolved, maybe: Ubuntu 14.04 unable to mount USB card reader

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Wed May 14 17:59:12 UTC 2014


On 05/13/2014 07:43 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> With 12.04 I can plug in my USB card reader with the card from my Canon
> camera and Nautilus opens. When I try it on 14.04 nothing appears to
> happen.
> <snip>

I had also been having trouble with Samba. I could connect to my other 
Ubuntu boxes, and to my WinXP box, but not to my wife's Win7 box. Back 
when I set up the machine (May 1, 2014) something I did caused the 
machine to offer to install "sharing service" which I allowed it to do. 
It claimed to have failed on libpam-smbpass, but it worked, and I was 
able to connect to my wife's Win7 machine. On the other hand, sometimes 
it would not work, and would kill Nautilus. Upon restarting Nautilus 
(Places > Home) the connection to the Win7 machine would be there. 
Yesterday I followed the instructions at:

http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/samba-in-14-04-broken/1301/9

and reinstalled Samba. Those instructions included restarting the smb 
service. One of the things I did was to change, in smb.conf, the 
workgroup for this machine from WORKGROUP to HOUSE, which is the 
workgroup of all the other machines in the house. Oddly, to me, this 
machine was still part of WORKGROUP when I tried connecting to the Win7 
machine after restarting the smb service.

This morning I powered this machine down and back up. The workgroup 
WORKGROUP still shows up in the Network list, but is empty, and this 
machine is part of HOUSE. Also, so far, I'm not having the same problems 
connecting to the Win7 machine.

Wondering if that would have had any affect on being able to see my USB 
card reader I tried that, again, and it opened as expected.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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