hmm, doing some googling on sumvision...errgghh...<br><br>nasty..<br><br>in a normal situation you would upgrade the firmware and see how that did, but I doubt if you'll be able to do this.<br><br>It may be worth trying a live disc like knoppix or something and see if you get the same results!!!!<br><br>weird...<br><br>it's hard to diag such a fault with samba, that's why I keep away from it!<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;"> Woo, smbclient output:<br>[nistur@minas-morgul ~]$ smbclient -N //storage/music<br>Domain=[⏽] OS=[] Server=[]<br>smb: \><br><br>and I'm having issues getting verbose output from mount.smbfs and cifs <br>tells me little more, I have a few password protected directories on the <br>NAS so I thought I'd try one where it wasn't connecting as guest. Same <br>problem.<br>I also found out that directories
that really don't exist get mount <br>error 5 = Input/output error whereas ones that should exist get mount <br>error 20 = Not a directory<br><br>As for changing settings on the NAS, there's very little I can do there. <br>There are very very VERY few options. I guess that serves me right for <br>getting a cheap NAS.<br>I've also tried ssh/telnet but the NAS doesn't respond<br><br>Thanks all<br><br>Lee Hughes wrote:<br>><br>> can you access the share with smbclient ?<br>><br>> smbclient -U username //servername-or-IP/share<br>><br>> */Nistur <nistur@googlemail.com>/* wrote:<br>><br>> hmmm, I believe my mount.cifs is playing up. If I try mount.cifs<br>> //storage/Music /mnt/music -o guest I get it saying TCP name<br>> storage/Music not found. However replacing storage with the static<br>> IP gives "Mount error 20 = not a directory".<br>> I just checked, local directories were entered correctly and even<br>> the
NAS directories were in the correct case.<br>><br>> On 10/4/07, *Nistur* <nistur@googlemail.com><br>> <mailto:nistur@googlemail.com>> wrote:<br>><br>> OK, I'm back now, codepage 437 and 850 produce different,<br>> although similarly incomprehensible garbage. I'll continue<br>> trying to look into cifs...<br>><br>><br>> On 10/4/07, *Nistur* <nistur@googlemail.com><br>> <mailto:nistur@googlemail.com> > wrote:<br>><br>> I have not yet, I was a bit busy this morning. I'm just<br>> off to uni for an hour japanese session... I'll have a go<br>> after that<br>> Thanks again<br>><br>> On 10/4/07, *James Le Cuirot* <chewi@aura-online.co.uk><br>> <mailto:chewi@aura-online.co.uk>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:15:02 +0100<br>> Nistur <
nistur@googlemail.com<br>> <mailto:nistur@googlemail.com>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Ok, the NAS is just a cheap enclosure I picked up<br>> when I trashed my<br>> > PC the end of last year as I wanted to keep my 300GB<br>> HDD. Sumvision<br>> > something or other. I tried CIFS as well but it<br>> couldn't resolve the<br>> > name, I even tried with the IP, I had a look at man<br>> mount.cifs and<br>> > everything. I haven't a clue about the firmware, I<br>> tried a while ago<br>> > to brave the ravenous wastelands of the sumvision<br>> site to look for<br>> > new one. I'll try that a bit later. As for windows,<br>> my WinXP VM<br>> > currently has it
mapped as a network drive and is<br>> working fine.<br>> > >From the NAS http control panel, I can't find any<br>> 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<br>> either to work. I<br>> have found that sometimes it only works when you give<br>> 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>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>> <mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>>
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