Cifs

[andrewg]

ive been messing around alot, Im not sure how as I cannot duplicate it with the same command but I managed to get it to return no errors.

Only problem is when I did a list in the dir it came up blank, but there are files in there.

Reading that posting youve provided it sounds like there is a fix in using "smbmount" but is there space on the MVP for this code?

It seems the mount command from busy box won't work as it does not know about samba drives.

hmm, ive not really used linux for a decade :eek:

THanks for your help anyway !

[mvallevand]

ive been messing around alot, Im not sure how as I cannot duplicate it with the same command but I managed to get it to return no errors.

Only problem is when I did a list in the dir it came up blank, but there are files in there.

Reading that posting youve provided it sounds like there is a fix in using "smbmount" but is there space on the MVP for this code?

It seems the mount command from busy box won't work as it does not know about samba drives.

hmm, ive not really used linux for a decade :eek:

THanks for your help anyway !

My guess based the size of smbmount on one of my linux boxes is there wouldn't be enough memory.

If you want to troubleshot this further, I suggest downloading a linux live CD like knoppix which will allow you to try and mount with either cifs and with smb to see if this is your problem. The ebay page did say the NAS has cifs support. I'd be willing to help with knoppix.

Martin

[andrewg]

Ive got a spare PC here (amd 1600 XP), im going to install linux on it (Suse).
Will this version of linux help?

I wanted to have a play with MythTV etc etc, although I think gbpvr is my choice

I assume it does support CIFS because I connected with my Vista box without problems, or am I missing something?


I am prepared to keep trying with this NAS

[mvallevand]

Ive got a spare PC here (amd 1600 XP), im going to install linux on it (Suse).
Will this version of linux help?

If you download Knoppix you don't have to install a distro, it will just auto boot and run from a CD.

I assume it does support CIFS because I connected with my Vista box without problems, or am I missing something?

SMB is a very old protocol, it is likely allowed for legacy used, just like it possible to add it to Linux.


Martin

[andrewg]

Just downloading Knoppix cd image, interestingly im going to have to suss out what I can use to write an ISO under Vista

[mmatheny]

Get a trial of Nero

[andrewg]

Spooky, was just going to post - downloading a trial of nero 7 as my version 5 does not seem to work ! Its downloading very slowly so it might b tommorow night that im up and running!

[mvallevand]

Spooky, was just going to post - downloading a trial of nero 7 as my version 5 does not seem to work ! Its downloading very slowly so it might b tommorow night that im up and running!

There's also cdburn and dvdburn in one of the toolkits from Microsoft.

Martin

[andrewg]

im in linux booted off the cd... Ive no idea what im doing though
I sure wish I could figure out where to change the resolutionn, im using a widescreen LCD and it looks very poor :eek:

[andrewg]

playing about with the mount.cifs keep getting this error:

mount error: can not change directory into mount target /home/rec/

i created rec in /home as could not create in the root