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I have no issues getting root access. Thanks for the write up, I appreciate it man, but still no go.

# apt-get install wizard-mounter

this gives me, r34 package not installable error

Doing it through red pill mode, Wizard install gives me the usual, need dependancy nonsense, then application manager crashes. Just odd

To continue my rant, and this is not directed at those kind enough to help... just a general rant..sorry.

I don't agree that it can't be easier to install things like this. All it takes is a little obvious planning. If the developer of said program knows everyone is going to need a dependancy, then write a script to check for it, if it's not there prompt the user with the option to install and provide a link to grab it. instead we get some poorly written readme file pointing to a ftp that is a bloody mess, and we are trying to type all of this stuf into a silly onscreen kb most of the time. Or at least, on the very page to download Wizard on maemo, have the link for the dependancy right next to it. other programs do this, why can't they all do it. These geniuses that program this stuff tend to forget how to explain things a little better for the rest of the world to understand imho.

Linux has always been more work then play. It don't mind hacking things here and there, but I have enough things to "hack" as it is, and this device just needs to "work", and the more I use it, the more it's crashes and lock ups are pissing me off.

I think Nokia is partially responsible for this. Being able to access windows shares is a bloody no brainer. SMB support is available on the most trivial of devices. Of course people are going to want to access their files on other windows based machines, there is no excuse to not have this natively and should have been there since day 1.

This IT platform is already dead imho, and other companies are going to surpass nokia if they haven't already. I have it to serve certain functions when it works, I do like fiddling with it most of the time, but the 3-4 months I have had it, I have seen no progress on some of the most trivial of things like this smb support. I hate apple, and you mention the ipod, and you do realize how easy the itouch is hacked? and the progress that scene is making is leaps above what I see here in the time they have had it. Nokia isn't serious enough about this platform, they are guinea pigging us as far as I'm concerned and leaving the real work to the kindness and talent of the open source community probably because it's free for them. Lunux is some ways was a mistake to use, a blessing in others....in my near 30 years of computing, that is the way linux has always been and always will be.

There should be no "hacking" involved to simply access a smb share, that is foolishness and a prime example of how this platform is doomed to fail.