<div>hmmm, I believe my mount.cifs is playing up. If I try mount.cifs //storage/Music /mnt/music -o guest I get it saying TCP name storage/Music not found. However replacing storage with the static IP gives "Mount error 20 = not a directory".
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<div>I just checked, local directories were entered correctly and even the NAS directories were in the correct case.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nistur</b> <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com">nistur@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">OK, I'm back now, codepage 437 and 850 produce different, although similarly incomprehensible garbage. I'll continue trying to look into cifs...
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nistur</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">nistur@googlemail.com</a>
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<div>I have not yet, I was a bit busy this morning. I'm just off to uni for an hour japanese session... I'll have a go after that</div>
<div>Thanks again<br><br> </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Le Cuirot</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:chewi@aura-online.co.uk" target="_blank">chewi@aura-online.co.uk
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:15:02 +0100<br>Nistur <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">
nistur@googlemail.com </a>> wrote:<br><br>> Ok, the NAS is just a cheap enclosure I picked up when I trashed my<br>> PC the end of last year as I wanted to keep my 300GB HDD. Sumvision<br>> something or other. I tried CIFS as well but it couldn't resolve the
<br>> name, I even tried with the IP, I had a look at man mount.cifs and<br>> everything. I haven't a clue about the firmware, I tried a while ago<br>> to brave the ravenous wastelands of the sumvision site to look for
<br>> new one. I'll try that a bit later. As for windows, my WinXP VM<br>> currently has it mapped as a network drive and is working fine.<br>> >From the NAS http control panel, I can't find any mention of CIFS
<br>> >either, it<br>> has samba access and ftp but that's it.<br>><br>> Thanks all :)<br><br>Yeah Samba can mean cifs and/or smbfs. I would expect either to work. I<br>have found that sometimes it only works when you give the IP but you
<br>tried that. Did you try codepage 437?<br><br>James<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">
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