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Ernst

Member

Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 35

Pls help - Mounting external HDD (NAS)

Hello,

trying since hours to mount my NAS. Read a lot of advises but cannot succeed...

e.g. (all as SU):

root@slitaz:/home/tux# mount.cifs -t //192.168.1.101/public /mnt/nas/ -o user=ROOT,password=root

Couldn't chdir to //192.168.1.101/public: No such file or directory

or

root@slitaz:/home/tux# mount.cifs //192.168.1.101/ /mnt/nas

Password:

mount error(5): Input/output error

The IP 192... is correct - checked it on a windows compi

The NAS-HD is formatted as FAT32

The PUBLIC directory on the NAS exists...

Samba-packages, smbclient and smbfs are installed...

What to do?!?

Regards Ernst

Ernst

Member

Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 35

Re: Pls help - Mounting external HDD (NAS)

Hello again - is no network guru out there who can help pls??? Read and tried and no success. Changed the NAS and tried:

root@slitaz:/home/tux# mount.cifs //192.168.2.60/PUBLIC /mnt/LANPLATTE -o user=GUEST,pass=public

mount error(5): Input/output error

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Interesting is if I try this and the NAS is in sleep-mode she "wakes up"... so there is a kind of communication between my compi and the nas...

Regards Ernst

Ernst

Member

Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 35

Re: Pls help - Mounting external HDD (NAS)

And hello again... you will not believe what happened: The moment I pushed the button "Send Post" my eyes went to my other screen and there (must have hit a key on the keyboard, because can't remember THIS posting was there before) I saw a post in another forum. And a guy reported he nearly had the same problem, was working on it since days and found "accidently" following solution (changed for my needs):

root@slitaz:/home/tux# mount.cifs //192.168.2.60/PUBLIC /mnt/LANPLATTE -o user=GUEST,pass=public,ro,nounix,noserverino

and WOW it worked!!! The first time I have access to the NAS. Now I have a new point to start from... Wanted to tell you - maybe its helpful one day for another newbie like me...

Regards Ernst

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Pls help - Mounting external HDD (NAS)

Well done, Ernst! You even taught me something now.

Ernst

Member

Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 35

Re: Pls help - Mounting external HDD (NAS)

Hello - @Trixar: thks for the flowers... - but to finalize the story and for all newbies like me... of course followed at first the procedure you can read often: to mount the drive on boot you use an entry in etc/fstab. This does not work in this case. It did not really surprised me and I looked into the boot log and found what I assumed: the fstab is worked trough before the ethernet connection is established. So this cannot work. Found a hint by googling in the old SliTaz forum and changed the line after the daemons are loaded in the etc/rcS.conf :

# Daemons to start at boot time. SliTaz only provides a few daemons: firewall,

# Web server (httpd), SSH server (dropbear) and rsyncd, so boot order is

# not really important, but dbus/hald should be started before slim.

RUN_DAEMONS="dbus hald cifs cupsd slim firewall httpd"

# Mount LAN-Drive (NAS)

mount.cifs //192.168.2.60/DATA /mnt/LANPLATTE -o user=GUEST,pass=public,uid=tux,gid=users,rw,nounix,noserverino,nobrl

So this now is working perfect - if the NAS is started a short period before the compi and this isn't a problem at the moment. Of course regarding safety issues (I learned you should work with credentials/hidden(protected)files...) this is not the best way but I'm for the time being interested in the technical solution and will have an eye on these questions later.

Regards Ernst