<br> can you access the share with smbclient ?<br> <br> smbclient -U username //servername-or-IP/share<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
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