My spouse bought me a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 recently, and I finally had time to connect it to our home network. I have samba installed, and my linux box (opensuse 11.1) can see the NAS, but when I try to open the network connection I get a "timeout on server" message. I bumped up the network connections, but still no luck. The odd thing is that last night I was able to connect and see the public folders for awhile. And her Windows Vista computer seems to connect without a problem after using the seagate software.

Does anyone have experience with this particular device, or have a suggestion for addressing the timeout errors? I'm no network admin, and have exhausted my resources on this. (sighs in frustration)

Thanks in advance.

Mike

If it is a public share, look at the "guest" mount option. Here is the fstab entry that I use for my archos5 tablet:
//archos/media /mnt/archos cifs uid=jschiwal,gid=jschiwal,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,guest,noauto,user


If you are having problems with browsing, perhaps check your firewall settings. In YaST2 Firewall, perhaps in the Broadcast section, enable samba browsing.

This thread may be more suited in Linux - Server. I might move it to that forum later.