[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Ben DeMott]

To more precisely answer your question - you shouldn't need the file
argument (just type /media) into firefox for example - I should have
mentioned this in my last email.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've mounted an external hard drive
> on a USB 2 connection.  Works fine,
> and I can do all the things one would
> expect to go.
>
> Except access it via Firefox.
>
> I enter the URL file:/// and view the
> contents of the root directory.  I can
> then left click on most entries and see
> the contents.
>
> But not the external drive.  So, say the
> external drive is /disk2.  If I enter the
> URL file:///disk2 in to Firefox I get nothing.
> "ls /disk2" from a console window works fine.
>
> Running Kubuntu 9.04.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
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