Cant access hard drive on network

Hi got my AA1 for christmas and all is going pretty well except for not being able to access files on my external hard drive. Now I do realise linux and windows are differnt but I did kind of think typing \\storage in firefox would work like it does in internet explorer. As you probally know it does not work. Can any one help please? I'm a bit green when it comes to linux so any hellp will have to be simple or detailed.

Many thanks in advance stewart

 

see my reply to the post

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8786

let me know if this works for you

 

Hi thanks for your input, but Im still having problems. What do you mean by you created [ directory /mnt/home/Share ] how do I do this? Is the directory the name of the folderI want to mount my NAS too? Sorry for being not so clever I'm sure I will get there eventually.

Stewart

 

from terminal, type

su -
mkdir /mnt/home/Share

...
then the other commands in the previous post

 

Hi Chupachups thanks for your help so far, sadly I'm afraid to say I'm still struggling.

I enter the following in the terminal and all is fine

u -
mkdir /mnt/home/Share

But when I enter the next bit I get :
mount -t cifs -o user=user name,password=my password //storage /mnt/home/Share

Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
[root@localhost ~]#

I would be most grateful of any help, Stewart

 

a) have you created a shared directory on your windows machine ? I'm not sure you have...I assume your machine is called storage (indicated by //storage in the above), but you haven't specified a shared name
b) have you substituted the literals "user name" and "my password" with the actual values as setup for the windows share ?

as an exmple, if you windows machine is called "clunky", and you have a share called "clunkystuff", with a windows user called "accessclunky" which has a password "accessclunkypassword" (don't use this example, the names are too long), then the mount command becomes

mount -t cifs -o user=accessclunky,password=accessclunkypassword //clunky/clunkystuff /mnt/home/Share


hope this helps

 

Hi I think I may have been misleading you. What I have is NAS called storage with a IP address of 192.168.1.4. On the NAS there is a folder called home which has all my music/photos on it.

Please dont let me push your willing to help to far.

Stewart

 

try the following...

don't specify the -o option

don't specify the user and password clauses

 

mount -t cifs //storage/home /mnt/home/share

mount error: could not find target server. TCP name storage/home not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found
[root@localhost ~]#

 

a) is the shared folder really called "home", earlier you only specified //storage, now you specify //storage/home

are you able to show me a screenshot of the mounted drive from a windows machine ?

b) are you able to ping //storage,

ie

ping storage

should give you some reassuring msgs
else try specifying the ip address rather than the network name in the mount command

 

Hi, The NAS box is called storage the folder on it that contains all my stuff is called home. Ive tried using the IP address but that doesnt work. I've pinged the NAS and thats all fine.

 

I'm stumped, dunno why its not working....although I noticed /mnt/home/Share should be spelt with an upper case S on share, but thats not the error being reported, seems the AAO can't see the network entity //storage/home

 

I had the same mount error, and to get the command

"mount -t cifs -o user=your_windows_user_id,password=your_windows_password //your_windows_pc/windows_shared_directory /mnt/home/Share"

working, I did the following : on my windows XP PC where the shared folder was I had to go to Control Panel, Network Connections, Local Area Connection, then on General Tab tick the box for "File and Printer sharing for Microsoft Networks". Not sure why this is not done when you turn on the sharing at folder level. Worked for me, and I had write access to the shared folder.

 

just speculating here...I think this may have allowed the windows share as SMB (also known as cifs). an alternative to cifs is nfs, usually recognised by UNIX systems

any idea what your NAS supports ? would be surprising if it didn't support cifs

how about trying mount -t nfs ...

is there any security on this NAS whch might be only allowing certain hostnames, or MAC addresses....seems strange that there is no userid/password security at all ?

 

Hi tried what was suggested and got the following

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t nfs user=admin,password=********//storage /mnt/home/Share
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on user=admin,password=********//storage,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

My NAS does have a password and a user name, the user name is admin and the password is ********.

Thanks for getting back to me, Stewart

 

And then another combination

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t nfs //192.168.1.4 /mnt/home/Share
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.4,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

 

its not nfs

try

a) mount -t cifs //192.168.1.4/home /mnt/home/Share

or

b) mount -t cifs -o user=admin,password=******* //192.168.1.4/home /mnt/home/Share

 

by the way, what model NAS is it ?

 

Hi chupachups,

Im getting a couple of error messages, you see I have a password for entering the NAS setup and a password for entering the folder through windows. I guess the windows one is irreveant.

mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@localhost ~]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.4/home /mnt/home/Share
Password:
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@localhost ~]#

Thanks Stewart

 

think you will find it is the password you use under windows...both windows and the AAO are trying to access the NAS resource

it is unlikely to be the admin password