Hi all,
I have a Western Digital My Book World Edition II 2TB http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=290 set up on my Windows install.
Question is: how do I access the files from my Slackware box? I have Slack 13.37 64bit installed on a Samsung laptop.

Thanks,
eraosso

Share the drive under windows and mount it with samba / cifs?

Based upon a quick perusal of the user manual:

Looks like the device is Linux based and supports CIFS/SMBS and NFS.

Find the IP address of the NAS device. The NAS device will obtain an IP address from your router if you are using DHCP or will use a static IP address if you configured the device that way.

Verify you can find the NAS device using the ping command. For example:

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the device. For example, 192.168.1.100 or something similar.

If the CIFS/SMBS service is enabled on the device then try the following:

smbclient -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

You might be asked to provide a password.

If the smbclient command is successful, you should see a listing of all share points provided by the device.

If the NFS service is enabled on the device then try using the showmount command to discover which NFS mount points are provided by the device. Try the following:

/usr/sbin/showmount --exports xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Depending upon the results, use the mount command thereafter to connect to the desired share points.

I hope this helps.

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From the OP it sounds like it is directly attached rather than on the network

Hi,
with the smbclient command, I get:

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.34]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Public Disk Public Share
Download Disk Download Share
Configuration Disk System Configuration
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (My Book World Edition Network Storage)
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.34]

Server Comment
--------- -------
MYBOOKWORLD My Book World Edition Network Storage

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
WORKGROUP

but then I'm having issues with the mount command.
Forgive me for my persistent "newbiness" but I'm having issues with the mount command:

mount -L 192.168.6.200/Public /media/hd returns mount: no such partition found

I have edited the samba.conf file and the only change I've made to the example file was that I uncommented the line for hosts allow and changed the domain to 192.168.6

Thanks again!
eraosso

This is what I have done for my Seagate Black Armor NAS.

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Rather than use 'mount -L' use 'mount -t' as suggested by SqdnGuns.

I notice the device IP address is 192.168.6.200. Is your 'nix box is on the same 192.168.6.x subnet? If not then your router needs to bridge the two different subnets or you will experience problems trying to connect to the device.

The NAS device host name is MYBOOKWORLD.

You might want to check how the NAS device's IP address is assigned. If dynamically through DHCP then any time the router is rebooted the IP address could change unless the router is configured to reassign the same address or the NAS device is configured to use a static address. The point is once you get the mount command to work manually you likely will want to permanently add the mount in /etc/fstab.

Just a little helper to improve readability in the forums, when copying and pasting text from the command line output, be sure to enclose the text in code tags. Then when the text is posted in the forum the text will retain the same output formatting. Something like this:

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Thanks guys!
I have issued the command and it did mount correctly with root pwd.

I will do some more research and work on username and password options.

Woodsman, I have configure the router to assign a fixed IP to the NAS device and all devices are within the 192.168.6 subnet.

Thanks a lot!

Glad to hear it worked out for you.