special device 192.168xxx.xx/mnt/media does not exist

travalon · 04-12-2013, 01:03 AM

I have a freenas 8.3 set up with NFS shares to stream to my XBMC box. it was working fine until tonight. It has a static IP address but when I try to access any of the content from the XBMC box I get the faild to connect to server message.
So I checked the box it's self and it seemed to be stuck in a reboot. I rebooted it and still couldn't retrieve content. I then tried to mount the shares on 2 different machines the same way I always do:

sudo mount 192.168.xxx.xx/mnt/media /home/travalon/nas

and got the same :Special device 192.168.xxx.xx/mnt/media does not exist:" message on both machines.

I can ssh in, look around, copy and move stull but I just can't mount the volume.

I Know I did something to it because I was adding files and re organizing things but kept getting "you do not have permission to view the contents of this folder" or some similar message. I got irritated and sshed in then proceeded to chmod 777 all the shares so I could move them around. ever since then I cannot access them through a mount or from my XBMC box. I do have some back up config files but they are all before I organized the shares. If I use them will all the content I added disappear? I think so. How do I fix this?

I know it's my fault but Google and the other forums search didn't give me alot to go on.

Thanks to all....

chrism01 · 04-12-2013, 01:14 AM

How about the missing ':'

Code:

sudo mount 192.168.xxx.xx:/mnt/media /home/travalon/nas

eg http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/client.html

If its set in the fstab, then just

Code:

sudo mount  /home/travalon/nas

should be enough for it to recognise the reqd mount.

travalon · 04-12-2013, 01:19 AM

Oh..... OOOps...... but it still didn't work. it mounts but I still get "access denied to /home/travalon/nas"
Not in the fstab I haven't put it there yet.

chrism01 · 04-12-2013, 06:28 AM

That's a step forward; at least it mounts.
Have a look in the logfiles for more detail.
Did you not get any more than just 'access denied..'? Normally you'd get something about permissions or such-like.
Are you sure you only edited the file perms and not ownerships at all?
There's a --verbose option you should try http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

travalon · 04-21-2013, 09:55 AM

The denial messages were quite broad but now it's irrelevant as the box won't boot or freezes up. Thanks for the link but it's way over my head for now.

travalon · 04-24-2013, 01:25 PM

Here's my last success from the freenas forum. Though it really didn't solve anything.Please have a look.
http://forums.freenas.org/showthread...ot-exist/page2