On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Thomas Rieff <trieff at greencaremankato.com> wrote: > As someone else mentioned, seeing your fstab may help us to help you. > How can I get to it??? Booting from something else (cd or usb device) and opening the file from there > When you say you tried the Ubuntu live CD, I'm guessing that's the > desktop one? > Yes ... > Yes you are probably right. Maybe quicker to reinstall. Bummer. Well, possibly if you were only in the process of initially setting things up. But as I mentioned, you can also boot to the live CD and install the necessary packages within the live session. > I was setting up the samba.conf file for global shares, etc. Well, making changes to the samba.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf?) wouldn't also make changes to your /etc/fstab file, so that file was probably just fine. You may be best to undo any changes made to the fstab, then focus on your smb.conf. Also, a tip when working on configuration files: sometimes it can be handy to copy the file to filename-old (or whatever you prefer) before editing the file. Then if you REALLY screw something up, you can copy the -old file back over top of the original and be back where you started. - Justin