[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Dave Brondsema]

Bob Kline 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.
> 

FWIW, I'm on Kubuntu 9.04 and can access mounted directories in Firefox
fine.  E.g. /media/disk which is automounted.


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