This is a very frustrating problem! I have a small home network with several dual boot Ubuntu / Windows computers. I have recently upgraded my Broadband connection and the new router permits the direct attachment of an external USB drive which can back up all of the household's computers.

There are no problems when booted under Windows, and there were no problems with older versions of UBUNTU, but since upgrading to 11.10 I can no longer "see" the drive. I used to find it via Network / Windows Network / Home / name of Router, but under 11.10 the same method yields an error message Unable to mount location Failed to retrieve share list from server.

Can anyone help please?

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-12-21 10:06 GMT

Stats: 0:02:02 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Service Scan

Service scan Timing: About 50.00% done; ETC: 10:10 (0:01:56 remaining)

Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.254

Host is up (0.0097s latency).

Not shown: 998 filtered ports

PORT     STATE SERVICE     VERSION

554/tcp  open  rtsp?

7070/tcp open  realserver?



Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 152.38 seconds
sudo tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog

[sudo] password for alaric: 


Dec 21 10:05:42 UPSTAIRS2U wpa_supplicant[882]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:01:3b:8b:63:1a [GTK=TKIP]