Dell 705n NAS Access
Greetings all,
I just acquired a Dell 705n NAS and plan on using it for storing music, movies, etc...... I have set up the networking for UNIX/NFS for my Slackware box as well as M$ Networking for the wife's PC. Now I am having a problem mounting the NFS shares that I have created. I have been searching over and over as to why I get the following error: Code:
mount.nfs: mount system call failed Code:
mount -t nfs SQDNGUNS_NAS:/MUSIC /mnt/nfs/music Code:
mount -t nfs 192.168.15.105:/MUSIC /mnt/nfs/music Output of rpcinfo -p Code:
$ rpcinfo -p Any ideas where I am failing to make this work properly? Thanks in advance........... |
If you have SMB (Microsoft) file sharing configured on the NAS then why not use that protocol to connect with the Linux box?
Install Samba client and SMB4K on the Linux box. Once you have that working you can disable NFS on the NAS. These days I use SMB4K to connect to my Iomega NAS. However, before I discovered SMB4K I used the following script run as root to connect to the Iomega NAS. Code:
#!/bin/bash |
I'll give it a shot when I get home...........Thanks
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Notice in my connect script that I connect to the NAS by means of its IP address. In order to ensure that the NAS's IP address remains the same from one day to the next I configured my router to always assign that specific IP address to the MAC address of the NAS. This is because, since I don't have any Windows machines to act as the LAN master browser, I cannot browse the network for NetBIOS names and shares. So I have to use the IP address of the NAS, so the IP address of the NAS must always remain the same.
I could slightly enhance this by adding a record in my Linux boxes' hosts file to map a name to that IP address. I don't do that because I switch Linux distributions on a regular basis and I get tired of reconfiguring tiny details in the Linux system whenever I install a new distribution. :) |
Been a few days, busy with life and a newborn............
I have installed Samba client and SMB4K on Slackware 13 RC1 x86_64 box and all is well now. Example command I am using to mount it: Code:
smbmount //192.168.15.105/music /mnt/nas.music Thanks for the assist.................. |
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