connect to smb share on NAS
 

I've got a NAS drive which has an ftp and samba server.
There's not much to configure when I enter the admin page of my NAS. I specified some folders as smb shares on it.

When I'm trying to connect to the share I get an error

Then I tried
Does it seem that no samba-share is available?

As I said there's not much to configure on the NAS SMB server. There's a tab 'smb server'. There are only 2 things there - a folder list and a sharing list so I added 2 of main NAS folders to the sharing list and that's it.


any hints
thanks

Do you know what type of share authentication is being used? Choices are Windows for Workgroups, NT Lan Manager, and Active Directory. Hopefully such as simple configuration would use W4WG share level security.

If that is the case then does your NAS provide a way to associate a password with any/all shares or overall access to the NAS? If it does then set some password. Any password will do.

You are using SMB utilities that I've never heard of much less ever used. Your NAS almost certainly has an IP address. Try mounting a share to a mount point on your computer.
If your NAS has a user account then add that to the mount command as follows:
If that works but your normal users cannot access the share then add the uid and gid parameters to the mount command as follows:

thanks for your reply

It uses windows workgroup. I got a notebook with XP to check it and the only thing I had to do is to specify the workgroup and it connected without any problems.
There are 2 passwords on my NAS. One is the admin password to change its settings through its website, the other one
I set on the samba folder. The file structure of my NAS is as follows:
/data
/public

When I put some other password I got 'permission denied', however when I put the smb folder password:

The other thing is that I have not modified any smb.conf file as I assume it needs modifying only in case of configuring a smb server not a client (am I right?)

It doesn't have any samba user, the only user I had to set is the admin user to access its web control panel. I tried the command including the user but the outcome it exactly the same ie. not a directory.

Apart from specifying a workgroup and smb shared folders, there's really nothing more to configure on my NAS

thanks

Issues with CIFS on CentOS 5.2 (but not 5.0)
 

I have been installing CentOS 5 for many months now. I have been adding the u/mount.cifs(v1.8) files and using them to connect to Netgear/ Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ devices. Having a need to ghost these machines I needed to start installing CentOS 5.2 which allows ghost to work with the selinux partition information.

Following the same procedure I always do on a freshly installed OS (copying the u/mount.cifs (v1.8)) and the scripts I use to mount the NAS shares. I ran the scripts only to come up with:

mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I have tried all forms to mount the share to no avail. Meanwhile the same script and u/mount.cifs files work fine on the CentOS 5 boxes.

script entry:
mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

Other attempts:
mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred :: where password was enclosed with quotes. -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount.cifs -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred -> Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yetNo ip address specified and hostname not found

mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -ousername=domain\vmbackup,password=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o[SPACE]username=domain\vmbackup,password=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o username=domain/vmbackup,password=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount -t cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o user=domain\vmbackup,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount.cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o user=domain\vmbackup,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount.cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o user=vmbackup,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@],dom=domain -> -bash: !,dom=domain: event not found

mount.cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o dom=domain,user=vmbackup,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

mount.cifs //nas1.domain.internal/vm-base /mnt/NAS1/vm-base -o domain=domain,user=vmbackup,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@] -> mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Please can anyone help explain why I can mount from CentOS 5 systems but not CentOS 5.2?

UPDATE: Using --verbose for 5.0 and 5.2 systems shows that CIFS appears to be mis-parsing options. Notice the quotes in the verbose output on the 5.2 system.
5.0:
# ./mountNAS1.sh
parsing options: rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//nas1.domain.internal\vm-base,ip=10.1.129.16,user=vmbackup,,,,,,,,,,domain=domain,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@],ver=1,rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred
parsing options: rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//nas1.domain.internal\backup,ip=10.1.129.16,user=vmbackup,,,,,,,,,,domain=domain,pass=[R#M)T#D@T@],ver=1,rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

5.2:
# ./mountNAS1.sh
parsing options: rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//nas1.domain.internal\vm-base,ip=10.1.129.16,user=vmbackup",,,,,,,,,,,domain="domain,pass="[R#M)T#D@T@]",ver=1,rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
parsing options: rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//nas1.domain.internal\backup,ip=10.1.129.16,user=vmbackup",,,,,,,,,,,domain="domain,pass="[R#M)T#D@T@]",ver=1,rw,credentials=/root/VMbkp.cred
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)