Steps for Thunderbird migration from Windows Vista to Fedora

[Sibir Chakraborty]

Hi Kirk/all,

In any of the guides, I am not finding a very useful info. I use all the
time and I am pretty sure it helps a lot in all Networking companies using
large shared drives on Windows to Fedora...

The steps are actually very simple:

*Map windows drives on Fedora linux:*

There are several ways though.

You will first need to share a folder/drive on your Windows computer so that
it can accessed through network. You can do this by right-clicking on the
folder/drive that you would like to share and selecting the “Sharing”
option.

1.mkdir -p /mnt/ntserver
2. mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o username=vivek,password=myPassword
/mnt/ntserver2.

Where:

t smbfs : File system type to be mount (outdated, use cifs)
-t cifs : File system type to be mount
-o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I had passed two
options. First argument is password (vivek) and second argument is password
to connect remote windows box
//ntserver/download : Windows 2000/NT share name
/mnt/ntserver Linux mount point (to access share after mounting)

Just wanted to share the info with all FEDORA Lovers like me....

Is there some way to add this to any documentation or guide...I am slight
newbie..

Thanks,
Sibir

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Sibir Chakraborty
<jkstriangle at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for getting the info in. Can't wait to see F11 rocking ! I am
> already trying that out in 3 of my machines. Trying on different combination
> on Vista to Fedora migration...Will keep posted...
>
> Thanks,
> Sibir
>
>   On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Juan M. Rodriguez <nushio at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Sibir Chakraborty <
>> jkstriangle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Ragarding access to Thunderbird profile, kindly note that: On Windows
>>> Vista/XP/2000, the path is usually
>>> %AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random
>>> string of 8 characters.
>>>
>>> Also, C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ is the
>>> access path that I found in Vista. This is required to be updated in the
>>> docs mentioned below.
>>>
>>> In am a newbie to the forum...and you request and appreciate if someone
>>> guides me through.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Secondly I would also like to add one more guidance tip on the section at
>>> : *Application Data Folder*
>>> If you are unable to fing AppData, please do the following:
>>>
>>> Start > Run > enter %AppData% and press Enter. You will be taken to the
>>> "real" folder, which is C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming on Windows
>>> Vista.
>>>
>>>
>>>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Also, it would be nice to know that, users can move around the Profile to
>>> some location or sda where the sda is not full(enough HD space). It is also
>>> possible to backup on a Remote Mounted location.
>>>
>>> To do this:
>>>
>>>  Shut down Thunderbird completely
>>>
>>>  1. Go to: the path is ~/.thunderbird/
>>>  2. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved.
>>> Change the Path= line to the new location
>>>  3. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0 and lastly.
>>>  4. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sibir
>>>
>>>
>>> **********************************************************************************************************************
>>>
>>>   On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Kirk <kirk202 at q.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've written the steps needed to migrate Thunderbird Profile Data from
>>>> Windows XP. I don't have access to Vista.  Could someone read over this
>>>> section for me that's more familiar with Vista and let me know if
>>>> different steps are required?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Communications#Moving_Your_Thunderbird_Profile_Data_from_Windows_to_Fedora
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>  -Kirk
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hey Sibir,
>>
>> Thanks for your corrections, as I said, I'm no Vista user so I couldn't
>> check if anything else had changed.
>>
>> I'm updating the Wiki page to make up for my mistake.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Nushio
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
>> Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
>> Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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