On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:47:34AM +0000, Chris Walker wrote:
But how do I transfer files from linux to the NAS box? I thought I would need to mount it but if I try smbmount, I'm told that the command doesn't exist. I'm using Mandriva btw.
smbmoount has been replaced by mount.cifs which is one of the 'helper' applications used by the standard mount command. Do 'man mount' and it should tell you the parameters needed for mounting a CIFS (same thing as SMB) file system.
[root@Epox chris]# mount -t smbfs -o password=Mandriva //storage_server/ftp_raid_c /mnt/Edimax/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //storage_server/ftp_raid_c, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
Message from syslogd@Epox at Sun Nov 15 11:42:47 2009 ... Epox klogd: smbfs is deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs
So it's telling you to mount with type cifs.