Hello peeps,
Is it possible to mount a drive in linux and if so how do i do it? this is the situation i have
Samba server as PDC and aslo sharing files
NAS - the folder on the NAS i want to share is located at
192.168.1.77/disk-1

basically i would like disk-1 mounted under the directory root directory /

i can then share it through samba.

any idea? please be as descriptive as possible because i am a newbie to linux and also never used mounting before, so if i have to create any mount points or something please explain. cheers

Steve.

If Windows boxes are not involved I'd suggest you use NFS instead of Samba. This is a native UNIX thing and works flawlessly.

Is it possible to mount a drive in linux and if so how do i do it?
Yes, the command mount is what you want. Check out its man page for more info

Samba server as PDC and aslo sharing files
NAS - the folder on the NAS i want to share is located at 192.168.1.77/disk-1
basically i would like disk-1 mounted under the directory root directory /
mkdir /NASfolder
mount -t filesystem //192.168.1.77/disk-1 /NASfolder

Now, it will depend largely on what type of remote connections your NAS will allow. I'm going to assume it allows SMB/CIFS connections, in which case you should replace the word filesystem with smbfs, but you didn't say what type of NAS service you have. Should the example work, you can add a line to your /etc/fstab to automount it as boot-time, but lets actually get it mounted first.

Sorry i should have said "Is it possible to mount a NETWORK drive...."

i get an error connecting to port 445 on the NAS, is this the port that smb uses for sharing files?

All I know about the NAS is thats a NAS Lite?? it just has some disks in it hosting files and folders, i didnt set it up so i cant tell you much about it..

Steve

if you google "tcp port list" you find out if 445 is what samba uses. It sounds right, but I'm to tired to look.

your original comment did work by the way, sorry. i just saw that it failed and assumed it didnt work. however it has worked so thank you very much for your help on it mate. problem solved

if you know anything about permissions tho feel free to reply to my inheritable permissions thread, im quite stuck on that one.

thank you.

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