Sharing NAS

[tnavarra]

I have a NAS (Maxtor, central axis). I use the NAS for all my working files and media.

I have been unable to see this disk with Amahi. If I am in Fedora, I can connect to the NAS and navigate through the files.

I would like to be able to mount directories in the NAS to existing shares.

Can I get some tips on how to do this? I have searched the forums and have not found too much on this topic.

Thanks

[cpg]

The idea is to do that in two steps:

• mount the NAS shares to your HDA
• make them available as Amahi shares to the rest of the network

The second step is just customizing the share path to be that path where you mounted the NAS shares.

NOTE: that page linked above in the wiki may need a bit of polishing. I just did a bit of it, however, it may need more. please do update/improve it as much as you can.

[tnavarra]

I had actually tried the "How to Mount a NAS" in the Wiki. So I went back and back tracked on my actions to see if I would get a different reaction. No change.

I am logged in as root.

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mount -a

response -

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line 17 in /etc/fstab is bad

Line 17 is -

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//192.168.1.106/My Documents/My Music /var/hda/files/music cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

I have the ip address of my NAS, the directory, the mount point, my credentials, the rest I don't understand but am copying from the wiki.

I have searched high and low and cannot find what I am doing wrong

Thanks

[cpg]

the spaces in the share name may be the problem.

try using \040 instead of a space.

from the man fstab page:

If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as ‘\040’.

i.e.

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//192.168.1.106/My\040Documents/My\040Music

why would fstab not use quotes or something sane, beats me.

[moredruid]

and the netfs syntax for /etc/fstab is:

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192.168.1.106:/this/is/your/nas/share /this/is/your/mount/point <the rest here>

[tnavarra]

I made a lot of changes, but I hope I get the critical path to a solution right in this post.

I made the change of using the ASCII code of \040 for space in my windows directory structure. This left me with a new error message.

retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I googled this. There were a lot of different solutions that all boiled down to the solution I was already using.

One of the posts (http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html) really filled in my education, but was no help with my problem. Finally I found a post that suggested using smbtree. When I did so, I found my NAS was not in the tree structure. With this hint, I went back to my NAS settings and made sure that my workgroup was set the same as all the other computers (Earlier in this process, I had found that I had two work groups - MSHOME and GECKO). The work group was the same. However, I ran a utility (forget which one) and it showed the workgroup was still MSHOME.

On a hunch, I set the IP address of the NAS (with it's own utility) to static and then updated. This also changed the workgroup. The next time I ran smbtree, the NAS was there.

[root@GeckoSrrrver ~]# smbtree
Enter root's password:
GECKONET
GECKO
\\TOKEK Maxtor Central Axis
\\TOKEK\ADMIN$ IPC Service (Maxtor Central Axis)
\\TOKEK\IPC$ IPC Service (Maxtor Central Axis)
\\TOKEK\GeckoNetFiles GeckoNetFiles
\\TOKEK\Public Public
\\TOKEK\config config
\\GECKOONE
\\GECKOONE\Brother DCP-7020 USB Printer Brother DCP-7020 USB Printer
\\GECKOONE\Gecko One Shared Documents
\\GECKOONE\My Local Documents
\\GECKOONE\My Music
\\GECKOONE\print$ Printer Drivers
\\GECKOONE\IPC$ Remote IPC
\\GECKOONE\My Documents
\\BULLDOG

AHA!

I needed to use this as the address of the NAS -
\\TOKEK\GeckoNetFiles

Back to fstab and changed the line -
//192.168.1.106/GeckoNetFiles/My\040Documents/My\040Music /var/hda/files/music/ cifs guest, _netdev 0 0

Mounted fine and I can browse my music on the NAS.

Thanks to everyone who has helped. Sure to have more questions in the future.

Tony