Thanks to Dale, David and Nat for the suggestions. First, I should have mentioned at the beginning that the drive is a 3 TB USB 3.0 drive mounted at /media/jjj on the laptop, which is the server. It is formatted ext4. File permissions on the folder that I can't get access to on the desktop are rwxrwxrwx. But if it was a permissions issue I should have gotten an error message "you don't have permission" instead of a hang.
The client (desktop) does not automount the share. It is not in fstab. Whenever I reboot the desktop I just open a terminal and mount the share manually. After all, the terminal remembers the command, so it only takes a moment. The share is the entire /media folder on the laptop. The -l flag for umount worked, unlike when I tried umount -f. However, it didn't help. After remounting it I still can't see the folder. I tried fuser and lsof, but killing the processes they listed didn't help. The processes were just ls and bash. While waiting for responses I used update manager to add over 150 updates to the desktop (Xubuntu 12.04). Afterwards I had to reboot. And after rebooting the problem remains. In the Xfce panel I have long used a widget called 'Places.' You can just click on it and get a popup list of drives and shortcuts to drives and folders. Ever since this started it has been hung on the desktop. Clicking on it does nothing; it doesn't even register the mouse click. I even removed it from the panel and re-added it, but it remains hung. Even after rebooting it is still hung. It was working fine until I clicked on the folder that won't display - that's when it hung. It is strange that it remains hung even after rebooting. Meantime the laptop accesses the folder and continues to function without issue. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
