Network Shares

[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

btw is there a way i can check the details windows used for the mount in that way i might be able to find the correct parameters

 

[Pleng]

hmm well I could never mount my shares by host name. Have you tried mounting by ip address?

ie mount -t cifs [//192.168.0.x/ShareName] [/mountpoint]

(ingonring the []s and replacing the details inside with the correct details for your situation.

 

[Bosbeetle]

yes I tried that and than I just get stuck.

it ask for a the password and then does nothing, btw I assume its my pandora password it needs

ill see if windows can also do it by ip adrs i might have the wrong ip adress

ah windows also hangs then, now to find out which ip is coupled to \\<name> its not the static ip I put in my freecom setup apperantly.

 

[Bosbeetle]

or I learn to read now I got the correct number 192.168.2.100 and not 0

now it asked for a password 2 times? and it gives

mount error(5): input/ouput error
refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page

if I look here people mention

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/cifs-mount-error-5-%3D-input-output-error-but-smbfs-works-456897/

"oh this is old now, I can't remember what is was, but I think it may have been caused by some older samba servers (2.x series) that didn't support the newer cifs protocol...

The error message could have been a bit more helpful I have to say...
"

hmm maybe I should update the firmware on my network drive but I rather not. My firmware is " NAS-BASIC47, LOADER 69" I cant find anywhere what samba server is on that?

 

[Pleng]

hmm dont know if I have much advice to help you. I can't check right now because I don't have my Pandora (2 days now, getting thee shakes), but I'm pretty sure that I was always using // and / rather than \\ and \ in my mount commands.

Also are you trying to connect to a hard drive that's directly connected to your router? as opposed to a Windows share? In that case I *think* (and it's just a hunch, mind) that it's a nfs share as opposed to a cifs file share. I could be totally wrong here and this is where I bow out and make way for better educated people to step it!

 

[Bosbeetle]

yes its a hd connected to my router but it indicates it has a samba server. for if I want to try smbfs or nfs should I just do -t nfs or smbfs or should I do the opkg stuff also for these packages?

I think Im getting somewhere

hmm smbfs gives unknown file system, and its not nfs, i think im stuck at the error 5

 

[Bosbeetle]

I am being dumb my nas also has ftp so tonight I'll try and mount that instead of the samba share. Any tips on mounting an ftp?

does the pandora have

ftpmount or should I use mount are there any additional comments I should add?

how do I put it so I can easily mount my drive all the time I turn on wifi or something with an easy command, i heard alot about this fstab stuff how does that work?

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