Thank you so much for this info! It worked like a charm the first time.

For those newbies out there like myself, it took me a while to figure out the final sentence: "You may also want to set this script to run upon boot, so you do not manually have to start the application on each startup."

Here's how I did it:
1. In a Terminal window: gnome-session-properties
2. Name: PogoPlug
3. Command: /path_to_where_pogoplug_was_installed/pogoplugfs --user my_pogoplug_email@gmail.com --password my_password --mountpoint /media/pogoplug
4. Comment: Remote PogoPlug Drives

I realize I'm a little late to this party, but this did not work for me on Kubuntu 9.10. It seemed like it was going to work, but I could find no icon in the Desktop folder nor any trace of drive elsewhere.

Anybody done this in Kubuntu or KDE? Help would be appreciated.

Thanks for this. The only problem I had was not realising I had to include my username (as well as root) in the fuse group. After doing that, it worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.10 / Mint 7 64bit.

[SOLVED] Problems with adding and deleting files to Pogoplug drive.

The instructions just above Step 4 above state that you should:-
* sudo chown root:fuse /media/pogoplug
* sudo chmod 0775 /media/pogoplug

I found I ran into problems adding and deleting files on a Pogoplug-attached drive that had previously been used attached directly to my PC. As this drive had already been used, there were loads of folders and files on it with ownership other than root:fuse and permissions other than 0775.

The add/delete problems went away when I temporarily re-attached the drive to my PC and ran the following two commands from the terminal before reconnecting the drive to the Pogoplug:-

* sudo chown -R root:fuse (mountpoint)
* sudo chmod -R 0775 (mountpoint)

where (mountpoint) is the directory on which your USB drive is temporarily mounted to do this task; e.g. /media/MyBook1

I hope this helps others who might have been experiencing similar problems.

debaser said: ... The drive consists of 2 ntfs partitions ...  it could not change the permissions for some reason on the first partition mount point, but after completing the chown and chmod commands on both partitions I still did not have write/delete access having reconnected via pogoplug. I of course have full access to both partitions via usb. Can anyone assist me with forcing the ownership?

Hi debasder,

My fault; I should have included the information that my drives were formatted as ext3. I, too, had problems with ntfs, which is why I started again with ext3. I am no expert, so I am not encouraging you to reformat - simply pointing out that the above post worked for me using ext3 partitions.

Hope you get an answer from someone with more knowledge than me.

Soybean, you are confusing the package which is 'pogoplugfs' with the mount point '/media/pogoplug'. The './' part at the start of the line ./pogoplugfs --user dderolph@embarqmail.com --password hlc43062 --mountpoint /media/pogoplug tells linux that pogoplugfs is a command to execute from the current directory - so you must run the command from the directory where you extracted the linux download.
Message back if this isn't clear but basically just follow the instructions above again but make sure you run the command from the right folder.

With regards to my own problems with not having permissions to write to connected portable drive formatted with ntfs I got this working. I'm not sure what package I was missing but I went to the Ubuntu Software Centre, searched 'NTFS' and installed everything I didn't already have (think there was about 4 packages). I think it might have been 'NTFS GNOME virtual filesystem module'(libntfs-gnomevfs) but anyway. Sorry that sounds really noobish but hey it worked and hopefully might help someone.

Good luck pluggers!

No you should not extract the files to /media/pogoplug ... Make a directory in your home folder and extract them there. Then when you do step 4 go first to that directory and make sure a pogoplugfs file is present in this directory.

./ <- before the filename make sure you run a linux executed file in the directory you are in.

Hope this make things a little clearer.

If you extract the files to your desktop.

Open terminal and type in "ls -l" you get a list of your directories in your home folder.

Use cd to go to your desktop directory. "cd Desctop" or "cd destop" check the directory list from previous command.

When you are in the desctop direktory use "ls -l" to show a list of files you have in that directory. Make sure pogoplugfs is in that list.

Use the command ./pogoplugfs --user [YOUREMAIL] --password [YOURPASSWORD] --mountpoint /media/pogoplug

./ <- tels Linux to run pogoplugfs in that directory.

Replace youremail and yourpassword with your my.pogoplug.com login email/password

HOstlund said: If you extract the files to your desktop. Open terminal and type in "ls -l" you get a list of your directories in your home folder. Use cd to go to your desktop directory. "cd Desctop" or "cd destop" check the directory list from previous command. When you are in the desctop direktory use "ls -l" to show a list of files you have in that directory. Make sure pogoplugfs is in that list. Use the command ./pogoplugfs --user [YOUREMAIL] --password [YOURPASSWORD] --mountpoint /media/pogoplug ./ <- tels Linux to run pogoplugfs in that directory. Replace youremail and yourpassword with your my.pogoplug.com login email/password

Soybean - do exactly as HOstlund says and you should be fine! 

Peter, the original instuctions are good for latest versions of Ubuntu as well as 9.04. 

FYI... This works in Ubuntu 10.x Thanks for the howto!

Thanks for the excellent instructions. FWIW, these 9.04 instructions worked just fine for me on 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'm not running 64-bit so I can't comment about that. This said, I would like to add a few clarifications and recommendations, FWTW. I also have one question.

Clarifications/Recommendations:

1. First, if I may be so bold as to offer some fatherly advice for the user 'soybean' and others: Never, ever post your real login credentials on a public user forum. Now that you've done it though, I strongly recommend changing your login credentials ASAP. Play safely, kids...
2. As pointed out by user 'PPorter', the 'pogoplugfs' options used in these instructions should be preceded by double-dashes (--), not a single dashes (-). This is difficult to discern in the proportional font used in the command examples.
3. Similarly, I found that using a password that contains an ampersand (&) seems to cause problems. Perhaps enclosing the password in quotes or escaping the character by preceding it with a backslash (\) may work, but I couldn't get that to work. Not sure I really gave that a fair shake though.
4. It appears that you don't, after all, need to actually change to the directory in which the 'pogoplugfs' command is installed before running the command. It seems that you can run the command from anywhere as long as you specify the full path to the command name, and as long as the directory in which the 'pogoplusfs' binary is installed is included in your $PATH environment variable. For example, I have the binary installed in '/usr/local/bin', and it seems to work just fine from there; viz., '/usr/local/bin/pogoplugfs options_list' works for me.
5. This may be obvious to some, but adding an ampersand (&) after the 'pogoplugfs' command gives you your command prompt back rather than tying up the terminal session for the duration of the Pogoplug drive connection; viz., '/usr/local/bin/pogoplugfs options_list &' seems to run without problem, though it does lead to the question of how best to stop the session gracefully.

Question:

1. What's the best way to stop the 'pogoplusfs' process? If run directly from the command line in the foreground, Ctrl+c seems to kill it gracefully. However, if run from a script or from the command line suffixed with an ampersand (&), Ctrl+c is not available. Right-clicking the pogoplug drive icon on the desktop doesn't work because the mount is not in fstab. Using 'kill' or 'pkill' seems to be asking for trouble. As far as I can see, using 'fusermount -u /media/pogoplug' seems to be the best way, but I want to make sure.

Confirming what OE said -- worked perfectly on Ubuntu 10.04, once I remembered that I need two hyphens on the pogoplugfs options (that wasn't obvious to my old eyes). Now I guess I want it in .login