Re: [ALUG] NAS box mount problems

Chris Glover wrote:

Chris Walker wrote:

...

I have setup my Edimax NAS box with various users and I can see it from this machine when in Windows mode and from my wife's laptop, also in Windows.

Although I can see it from this machine in Linux mode using FTP and can send files to it, I can't seem to mount the thing.

I've been googling this morning and found the smbclient command. Using that, I can finally connect to it and can see that there are no files present - not entirely unexpected!

I get this from smbclient :-

[root@Epox chris]# smbclient -L storage_server Enter chris's password: Domain=[STORAGE_SERVER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.20]

Sharename       Type      Comment
---------       ----      -------
FTP_RAID_C      Disk      Linux Share
Epox_Share      Disk      Windows XP Share
Laptop_Share    Disk      Asus Laptop Share
IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (NAS SYSTEM)
ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (NAS SYSTEM)

Domain=[STORAGE_SERVER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.20]

Server               Comment
---------            -------

Workgroup            Master
---------            -------
MY.HOME              MY.HOME
WORKGROUP            STORAGE_SERVER

I think I should now be able to mount the thing using the correct user, Mandriva and can do so like this :-

[root@Epox chris]# smbclient //storage_server/ftp_raid_c -U Mandriva Enter Mandriva's password: Domain=[STORAGE_SERVER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.20] smb: > ls . D 0 Sun Nov 15 11:16:28 2 .. D 0 Sun Nov 15 11:16:28 2

    58643 blocks of size 16777216. 47828 blocks available

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.

I've also been trying to mount the thing using smbfs but have had no more luck using that. I get this message when I do :-

[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 I'm a bit stuck now. Can anybody help please?

Hi Chris,

Try this:-

mount -t cifs -o user=<username> //storage-server/sharename mountpoint

it should prompt you for a password, and then mount the drive in the normal way.

Yep. It does now. I wondered why it wasn't working and then realised that I hadn't powered on the NAS box. Blame it on my age, my wife does!

What's more, I can even mount it at a couple of places so I can see 2 folders on the NAS box. Windows wouldn't allow me to do that so that's a definite improvement.

Many thanks for your help and that of Chris G.