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Problem mounting network raid drive in Ubuntu

Hello everyone.

I'm attempting my first-ever mount in Linux (Ubuntu 12), specifically a network raid drive that contains a photo archive that I want to access with a photo management/editing program.

The drive is accessible through the file manager at the location smb://mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive, and I can properly see the files using the Linux machine.

I *think* the command I am looking for is: sudo mount -t cifs //mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive

But I'm getting the following errors. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks much!

Code:

christopher@Heidi:/mnt$ sudo mount -t cifs //mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive,

      missing codepage or helper program, or other error

      (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might

      need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so



christopher@Heidi:/mnt$ sudo mount.cifs -t cifs //mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive

sudo: mount.cifs: command not found

christopher@Heidi:/mnt$ sudo /sbin/mount.cifs -t cifs //mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive

sudo: /sbin/mount.cifs: command not found

christopher@Heidi:/mnt$

usually smb shares are in form //<server>/<share>, you can see what network shares you can access by "smbtree" command (it scans all your network)

Thanks, gengisdave.

I ran smbtree and get these results:

Code:

christopher@Heidi:/mnt$ smbtree

Enter christopher's password: 

WORKGROUP

        \\MYBOOKLIVEDUO                  My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage

                \\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\IPC$                  IPC Service (My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage)

                \\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\Public                Public Share

        \\MYBOOKLIVE                    My Book Live Network Storage

                \\MYBOOKLIVE\IPC$                  IPC Service (My Book Live Network Storage)

                \\MYBOOKLIVE\Public                Public Share

        \\MEDIASERVER                    

        \\LKGA62336                      

                \\LKGA62336\ADMIN$                IPC Service ()

                \\LKGA62336\IPC$                  IPC Service ()

                \\LKGA62336\HDD_2_1_1              For everyone

                \\LKGA62336\HDD_1_1_1              For everyone

        \\IOMEGA-0059AD                  Iomega Network Hard Drive

        \\FON_5922_N                    Netbios-Arada 0.9.10

        \\ELLE                          

FUTUREOFNEWS

Since the exact reference to the share on the raid drive is "\\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\Public", I tried the following command using that exact reference, but still got the same error.

Code:

christopher@Heidi:/mnt$ sudo mount -t cifs \\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\Public /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on \MYBOOKLIVEDUOPublic,

      missing codepage or helper program, or other error

      (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might

      need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so

I looked at the properties of the directory /mnt/NetworkPhotoArchive and saw a message saying the directory name was too long. So I deleted the directory and created /mnt/PhotoArch. I've tried using both forward-slashes and backward-slashes, but still get the error about the wrong fs type...

do you have cifs utils installed? something like "apt-get install cifs-utils" or "apt-get install cifs" or "apt-get install smbfs", don't know exactly the package name

EDIT : "cat /proc/filesystems | grep cifs" should show if fs is supported, but i'm not totally sure about it

I ran sudo apt-get install cifs-utils, and it either installed or re-installed. I also ran "cat /proc/filesystems | grep cifs", but just got the command prompt, with no other response.

Interestingly, the error response changed when I re-tried the mount command (I tried it with both backwards and forwards slashes).

Code:

christopher@Heidi:~$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep cifs

christopher@Heidi:~$ sudo mount -t cifs \\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\Public /mnt/PhotoArch

mount.cifs: bad UNC (\MYBOOKLIVEDUOPublic)

christopher@Heidi:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //MYBOOKLIVEDUO/Public /mnt/PhotoArch

mount error: could not resolve address for MYBOOKLIVEDUO: Unknown error

christopher@Heidi:~$

\\MYBOOKLIVEDUO\Public is definitely what's listed in the response to the smbtree command, and it is still visible and accessible in the Nautilis file manager. Mystery...

Aha! The Western Digital MyBookLiveDuo does not officially support Linux, but it can be accessed by the local network IP address -- just not the //MYBOOKLIVEDUO name. After changing that to the IP address, it successfully mounted.

Thanks!

glad it works :) probably you have no association in your linux between your hd ip and its netbios name, "cat /etc/hosts" to see all this associations, this is mine:

Code:

#

# hosts        This file describes a number of hostname-to-address

#              mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly

#              used at boot time, when no name servers are running.

#              On small systems, this file can be used instead of a

#              "named" name server.  Just add the names, addresses

#              and any aliases to this file...

#

# By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@nvg.unit.no> says that 127.0.0.1

# should NEVER be named with the name of the machine.  It causes problems

# for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)

#



# For loopbacking.

127.0.0.1              localhost

192.168.1.2            tachi

192.168.1.3            batou

192.168.1.9            motoko



# End of hosts.

where tachi is my laptop, batou the desktop where i'm writing and motoko my nas; just "sudo <your text editor> /etc/hosts" to modify it as you need