I have a netgear router (wndr3700) with a usb hard drive hooked up to it. from what i can see there are no places to add new users on the router. the shared drive is currently setup with read/write access for all.

on my ubuntu (10.04.1 lts) box i mounted the share via smbmount (and have it in fstab)and can access everything just fine from the command line.

i can copy/read/write/delete files on the shared drive from the linux command line with no issue.

now.... i have ANOTHER linux box (vps) doing backups to my ubuntu box and Im trying to put the backups into the mounted drive, but ssh is failing (error setting the timestamp on the folders it creates). .then freezes.

not sure what im missing but this should work. my ssh connection is logging in as the same account that i login locally to the box which has all rights.

any ideas would be appreciated.

I am assuming the USB drive connected to the router is FAT32 or NTFS, neither of which support the Unix style file attributes that SSH will be trying to assign to anything you copy over with it. Samba (when you are mounting it over SMB) already knows the destination filesystem won't support those extended attributes and doesn't bother trying to apply them. I am not sure why that causes the process to lock up (perhaps simply due to the fact that the relatively weak router is overwhelmed by the error messages being generated by the process), but it is certainly the cause of the errors you are seeing.

Are you using SCP to transfer files? Have you tried using the -v option to get more verbose output to see if that sheds any light on the subject? What about error logs on the router itself, is there any provision for checking the system log files?

its not locking up but any copying or setting of attributes fails, thus backup jobs, copies, ssh copies etc all fail. is there any way to mount the share under linux so that it WONT try to write permissions to files? as you say, windows/mac smb connections are smart enough to know the permissions cant be applied. how can i tell linux the same thing, to ignore any extended attributes. ? thanks for your help!

hi
actually found the answer here, going to try these things.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount


thanks for pointing me in the right direction!


matt