mounting a NAS device in linux
OS: Opensuse 10.3
NAS Device: Linksys 500gb Raid NAS I would like to know how i would mount a NAS device in my suse server, i need this badly as i plan on using this NAS to collect all of my backups at the end of the day. I can't seem to find the correct way to mount this network drive. Does anyone know of a command that can help me accomplish this. |
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do you know of a command that will allow me to be able to transfer from the linux machine to the NAS device?
I am not too familiar with the smbclient and smbmount commands, didn't smbmount get replaced with the mount.cifs command? Also, if i type in smbclient -L (ip address) it shows me all the shares. So i can view them but i can't seem to interact with them. |
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If you've got the drive mounted, you just need to copy files. "man cp" |
suse linux doesn't seem to have the smbmount command available.
i'm going to research the smbclient command, thanks for the help guys. :) |
still no luck guys..
but i have found out that the OS that linksys built this NAS on is a UNIX one. So it looks like i'm trying to transfer from linux to unix.. Do alot of people have this problem mounting NAS devices to their linux servers? |
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Read your hardware documentation. Find out what protocols are supported. Look at the smbclient/smbmount commands (install them if you don't have them), or look at the mount command ("man mount"), to see if there are options for mounting a 'Windows' file system on a NAS device. If it supports NFS, the mount command will work for you. |
Generally these NAS drives run some bastardized version of linux with Samba since they are intended to be used with Windows machines. The smbclient software is a linux program that allows the linux box to access samba shares just like a Windows machine does, using SMB protocol.
Your distro must have smbclient available. I'd check that approach first. It's possible that the NAS might support an rsync transfer, but I wouldn't count on it. |
Hi,
Look at 'SMB-HOWTO'. This link and others are available from 'Slackware-Links'. More than just SlackwareŽ links! |
i just realized that my problem the whole time was that the whole time i was using the samba password when i should've been using the linux root password.
And by default my NAS device has no password. I figured it out using mount.cifs and i successfully mounted my NAS device. Thank you for everyone that helped me :) |
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