hmmmmm.. okay... this may be a syntax problem<br>make sure you've got nmbd running<br><br>you just reminding me how ugly and horrible smb is !!!<br><br>it's a god awful protocol, hats of to the samba guys for<br>doing lots of reverse engineering to get it to work!<br><br>you need get some debug!!!<br><br>mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -o user=username<br><br>hohohoh ..<br><br><dl><dt><span class="term">iocharset</span></dt><dd><div>Charset used to convert local path names to and from Unicode. Unicode is used by default for network path names if the server supports it. If iocharset is not specified then the nls_default specified during the local client kernel build will be used. If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is unused. </div></dd></dl><br>it's not anything to do with this is it!<br><br><br>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Nistur <nistur@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <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". </div> <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="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">OK, I'm back now, codepage 437 and 850 produce different, although similarly incomprehensible garbage. I'll continue trying to look into cifs... <div><span class="e" id="q_1156b92dc89b5277_1"><br><br> <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> > wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <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> <div><span> <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 </a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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"> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk </a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank"> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk/" target="_blank">dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br></blockquote>
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