Directory does not exist - FFS Linux Mint 12

[mar01-2012]

No doubt it will soon be clear how "new" I am!

Objective: synchronise my Thunderbird profile between my Eee PC 1015 running Mint 12 and a NAS used as a file server on my windows network. (I have done this quite happily using SyncToy whe I was running Windows 7 on the same Eee PC)

Solution: Mount the network drive using Gigolo. The server appears mounted on the desktop and I can access all files on it quite happily. Drag my Thunderbird profile folder to the left side of the FFS window, then drag the folder on the NAS to the right side.

ProblemClick "Compare" and an error window appears stating:

> Directory does not exist:
"smb://server-name/share/Thunderbird%20Profile/"
You can ignore this error to consider the directory as empty



What am I doing wrong?

[Zenju]

> What am I doing wrong?
"smb://" is special syntax that is handled differently by the Linux Mint file
manager. To access it in FreeFileSync, the Samba share needs to be mounted as
a regular directory:
http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0001.html

[mar01-2012]

Thank you. I have followed the instructions on the link and smbclient sees all
the folders on the share. However, whatever I put in as <name-of-mount-point>
mkdir cannot create a directory - "Permission denied".

What is meant by <name-of-mount-point>? Is it the <window-box>, the share, the
full folder path or whatever you want it to be? Anyway mkdir doesn't like it.

[Zenju]

"Permission denied".
When in doubt, put a "sudo" in front of each command :)

><name-of-mount-point>
It's the folder on your Linux system, name it as you wish.

[mar01-2012]

Sudo did the trick and all looking good until: "mount: unknown file system
type 'smbfs'"

[mar01-2012]

I found smbfs in Synaptic so I installed that which resolved that error
message.
Now I get "mount error: could not resolve address for <windows-box>: unknown
error". I will start again tomorrow!

I told you I was new.