failed to mount

Which Version of pyNeighborhood do you use?

version 0.4 - it is what comes with Linux Mint 9 LXDE.

Version 0.4.* is now longer Supported. You should use at least pyNeighborhood 0.5.2!

You can use https://launchpad.net/~pyneighborhood/+archive/stable this PPA to upgrade your pyNeighborhood to this Version.

Thanks, your answer worked.

Why would Linux Mint 9, which is quite recent, have an old, unsupported version of pyNeighborhood in its repositories? I don't understand. Will there be some kind of incompatibility between Linux Mint 9 and pyNeighborhood 0.5.2?

Linux Mint builds up on Ubuntu, which itself builds on Debian. Debian has a recent Version of pyNeighborhood since 2 month.

But either Ubuntu or Mint have updated his repositories :-(

Thank you again for your help. I have run into another problem (with the new version installed).

I am at home, I am trying to connect to a server at my place of employment. If I do this in the terminal, it mounts just fine:

sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /home/user/mountfolder -o domain=DOMAIN,username=USERNAME

In pyNeighborhood, I click on the plus sign (append a host or share to the browsing list). In the URL I enter //servername/sharename , and then click on the OK button. The progress bar goes about halfway, and then it just gets stuck, nothing ever happens, nothing gets mounted, no messages appear. I have also tried this when I had this in the CIFS mount options field: domain=DOMAIN,username=USERNAME, and entering my local machine's username and password in the fileds on the network tab, but that had no impact.

Can you help?

Is there an DNS entry for "servername"?

I'm sorry - I don't know what that quesion means. Where would I look to see if such an entry exists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System is what i mean.

Each host in your network have a so called "hostname". There a different ways to resolve Names in a network:
 * /etc/hosts
 * dns
 * netbios

If pyNeighborhood is unable to detect a share automatically via netbios (the samba browsing known from windows), you should have an dns oder hosts entry for this samba or windows server. In most small networks (soho - small office, home office) nobody has a complete dns infrastructure :-(

You can try //serverip/sharename instead of //servername/sharename, which skips the dns resolution of your server. If this didn't work too, a screenshot of you pyNeighborhood window maybe nice.

From where have you "servername"? Is this simply the hostname from windows?

I found out the IP address and tried that, but still the same problem.

(I would include an image, but I can't figure out how to make that work. I can copy the image to the clipboard, but pasting it into this message composition area simply does not work.)

You can use one of these image upload services all over the internet.

Another way is to start pyNeighborhood with trace / debug enabled on a Terminal and copy the output:
pyNeighborhood --trace
pyNeighborhood --debug

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We need to have a screenshot and debug-/trace-output to help.

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