Networking issues on using Linux

Dear Rockey

You have two problem and there is a solutions:

Add printer button not working, if you using USB printer. Just plug your printer cable into system and system automatically detects and install your system. If your system does not detect your printer then check your USB cable and power cable of printer.

Q: Thunar do not have similar default function for accessing network devices?

A: Yes Thunar have similar default function for accessing network devices.

Q: Thunar also not able to add hard drives when i boot it from USB?

A: Check your system setup and check drive configuration. USB Hard drive option must be ON.

Thanks

Hi Rockey, Linux is a bit more complex than Windows regarding devices installation.

Let’s talk about your NAS and the feature to see its disks on Thunar. First of all you must check if your network is working and you have at least SAMBA to see network shared volumes.

Obviously your network must be well configured and each device has his IP address, so, check if you have connection to NAS by pinging it.

You can manage your NAS simply typing its IP address on your browser:

http://ip address

Verify if you have SAMBA installed, if it’s not, install SAMBA by typing:

dpkg –i samba samba-common-bin samba-common.

 After your SAMBA is working you can mount on your file system a network volume by typing a command like the following one :

• Create a folder, it usually used a folder under /mnt : mkdir /mnt/server

Mount the network volume:

You will have your network drive under /mnt/ntserver, check it on Thunar.

Regarding your printer, I fear you must connect it to computer directly and not to the NAS. You can verify it by configuration page of you NAS in the web browser.

Check your NAS documentation, if a printer installation is contemplated, you should try to share it and use it on Linux with SAMBA.