Windows 10: Ubuntu on Windows - accessing Network drives - solved

Hi folks

tinkering around with UBUNTU on Windows (WSL) -- great fun

You can access Networked drives without using SAMBA

This command does it :

sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

haven't worked out though how to "get at" Windows local drives.

This command works for getting at external USB's though
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d (only needed ist time to create target directory for the mount)
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

to unmount safely.

$ sudo umount /mnt/d

For GUI programs see my other post in this thread

Some will run fine - others will need DBUS -- not implemented in WSL.

However a TCP get around (I think Linux users are Hacker by nature !!!)

sudo sed -i 's/<listen>.*<\/listen>/<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0<\/listen>/' /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

This will use tcp instead of Linux / Unix use of sockets.

I think this whole idea is quite fun -- probably not what Ms intended but a great idea having WSL in the first place -- am sure it will get better and better - especially with a few hacks and tweaks !!

Cheers
jimbo

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Windows-Ubuntu Dual Boot, Cannot write or edit files in Ubuntu.

Hello

I Dual booted ubuntu 17.04 last year and have been using windows 10 along side linux ubuntu 17 for over an year now. I upgraded my ubuntu to 17.10 already. Worked fine.

I have this problem:

I cannot open paste into or edit files in D drive when accessing the files from ubuntu.
I asked this problem on askubuntu :here

I got this answer of restarting windows, since if windows isn't shut down properly, it locks the drives so we cannot access those drives on ubuntu. It was solved at that time.

Recently I got the SAME PROBLEM AFTER UPDATING WINDOWS 10 (the regular updates). Does this means that windows is locking the drives always?

Please let me know how can I access my files in UBUNTU stored in D drive(with respect to Windows).

If any details from my question are missing, please let me know.

Thank you.

Hemal Mamtora

 

Networking problem between Windows and Ubuntu

Went on a short trip, took my Windows 10 laptop, turned off the Ubuntu computer and my wife's Windows 10 computer. When I returned, I turned everything back on and nether Windows computer could see the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS computer. On the Ubuntu computer,
Files/Network clicking on Windows Network received "Unable to access location - Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory" error. Both Windows computers were able to use the Ubuntu before the trip.

Any suggestions?

 

You are really digging deep into this WSL world.

I like it. Keep going! *Thumbs