Network Shares

[Pleng]

It's ALT, not shift.

Thanks, got it now. Now back to trying to resolve connectivity issues

(to those who said it's been changed to shift, it seems to be ALT on my system, anyway)

 

[Prometheus]

Interesting - thanks for that info.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

true, of course. I wonder if we could have a graphical widget for this at some point - might help windows people.

Pretty sure about that - but we don't have it right now

smb4k is a nice frontend for KDE systems, but doesnt help much for xfce/gnome

I recommend this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyneighborhood/files/
https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood

 

[Tom`]

true, of course. I wonder if we could have a graphical widget for this at some point - might help windows people.

Pretty sure about that - but we don't have it right now

smb4k is a nice frontend for KDE systems, but doesnt help much for xfce/gnome

I recommend this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyneighborhood/files/
https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood

heh, I tried that some time ago, but had a few major issues with it... hopefully it's improved in the last year or two

 

[PokeParadox]

It's ALT, not shift.

On the Pandora it IS shift... it was changed because it is more comfortable to do on the Pandora's keyboard.

 

[Pleng]

Well not on mine it isn't, Poke. It is most definitely alt!

 

[mindlord]

Is fuse and SSH-FS available out of the box, or am I going to have to hack my Pandora on day one?

EDIT: Nevermind... the opkg list says no hacking on day one needed.

 

[Chero]

true, of course. I wonder if we could have a graphical widget for this at some point - might help windows people.

Pretty sure about that - but we don't have it right now

smb4k is a nice frontend for KDE systems, but doesnt help much for xfce/gnome

I recommend this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyneighborhood/files/
https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood

heh, I tried that some time ago, but had a few major issues with it... hopefully it's improved in the last year or two

Used that on a zaurus, LinNeighborhood was more stable.

 

[Pleng]

Try this first:

mount -t cifs //UPSTAIRS/share /video

If that doesn't work without entering a password, try:

mount -o password="" -t cifs //UPSTAIRS/share /video

If that doesn't work, get the IP of the system you are attempting to connect to and type:

mount -o password="" -t cifs //<ip_addr>/share /video

If that doesn't work, then type:

ping <ip_addr>

If that doesn't work, send your Pandora back because you shouldn't have it anymore.

OK. On every occasion I am being greeted with the same error message. It says that for several file systems (including cifs) I might need a sbin/mount.type helper program. Is there possibly something missing?

The fact that the drives upstairs are formatted with NTFS shouldn't have any impact on a mounting a share, would it?

 

[Pleng]

Sorry to bump, does anybody have any idea what's wrong?

 

[Kimundi]

<offtopic>
Yeah! My Pandora arrived!
</offtopic>
..anyway I just wanted to say that I managed to mount a Samba-share on my Pandora:
1. Install cifs

sudo opkg update
sudo opkg install cifs

2. Mount it

mount -o user=<username>%<password> -t cifs <network share path> <mountpath>

<username> = username with which to login into the share
<password> = password for said username
<network share path> = path to the share, for example //UPSTAIRS/share/video
<mountpath> = path to a directory in wich you want the network share to appear, for example /mnt/nas or ~/video (= home/video)

 

[PokeParadox]

true, of course. I wonder if we could have a graphical widget for this at some point - might help windows people.

Pretty sure about that - but we don't have it right now

It's funny you have Gigolo on there, and I'm sure I've used this in Xubuntu to mount samba shares... so how come it doesn't do this on our Pandoras...?

 

[Pleng]

<offtopic>
Yeah! My Pandora arrived!
</offtopic>

woohooooo!

..anyway I just wanted to say that I managed to mount a Samba-share on my Pandora:

double woooohooooo!

1. Install cifs

 sudo opkg update
 sudo opkg install cifs

aha! The missing link!

2. Mount it

 mount -o user=<username>%<password> -t cifs <network share path> <mountpath>
[/quote]

OK. Well I have no username and password, and the network could not resolve the name of my computer so I had to use an ip address, so my command looked a little more like this

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/Videos /videos

anyways much thankso! :)

 

[Bosbeetle]

okay help the linux n00b, i tried this at first Ihad the same error as pleng so I did opkg insall cifs, that works fine.

so then I did
mount -t cifs //ipadres of share/directry /externalhd

then I got mount point does not exsist.

i googled a bit and then I created the directory media/externalhd then did the mount again but towards /media/externalhd and then nothing happened no message just nothing. it evensint goback to ´promt´

what did I do wrong?

 

[mindlord]

okay help the linux n00b, i tried this at first Ihad the same error as pleng so I did opkg insall cifs, that works fine.

so then I did
mount -t cifs //ipadres of share/directry /externalhd

then I got mount point does not exsist.

i googled a bit and then I created the directory media/externalhd then did the mount again but towards /media/externalhd and then nothing happened no message just nothing. it evensint goback to ´promt´

what did I do wrong?

You need read/write access to the mount point. Either take ownership
sudo chown username:username /media/externalhd
or give everyone readwrite acess
sudo chmod +rw /media/externalhd

the better solution IMO is to use fuse to handle the mount, that way you don't have to fiddle around with sudo.

Also, only root can mount, but if you use fuse, you can mount without root access.

 

[Bosbeetle]

how do i use fuse

also can i mount anywhere or just inside media?

 

[jonlad1]

Is there a gui to do this stuff?

I suck badly at terminal stuff

 

[mindlord]

Gigolo is supposed to do this stuff for us, but as I,ve pointed out somewhere else.... Gigolo is just broken and doesn't work.

 

[Bosbeetle]

I cant seem to get it to work

 

[Bosbeetle]

I cant seem to get it to work

some more details I am trying to mount a freecom network drive I have the same drive hooked up to windows. It does say it has a samba server. Whenever I try to mount it to my pandora I either get ip cannot be resolved (if I use the host name) or I get stuck so I have to crl-c

does somebody have an idea

also do I have to use cifs if the drive has a FAT32 filesystem?

Okay tried to mount a new folder to windows in windows I can just do add network location \\<name>\<folder name> and it works. When I use the same location on the pandora I get "mounting the DFS root for a particular server not implemented yet no IP adress specified and hostname not found"

haha I am getting lost in // and \\ ??