if you ask me both are ropey, and nfs aint much better! hhahaha<br><br><br><br><b><i>James Le Cuirot <chewi@aura-online.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:22:01 +0100 (BST)<br>Lee Hughes <toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>> hmmmm. interesting..<br>> <br>> things to try<br>> <br>> -t cifs (may just be an alias!)<br>> <br>> put samba into debug mode, it may reveal clues.<br>> <br>> Check firmware on nas? is it upto date? non buggy<br>> <br>> try connect a winblows client? does it do the same?<br>> <br>> this is interesting because most nas'es use Linux anyhow,<br>> and just run samba too!<br>> <br>> Unless your nas is evil! very evil, what is it?<br>> <br>> h<br><br>cifs isn't an alias. It's the newer protocol used by Windows and Samba.<br>You shouldn't use smbfs anymore unless you have to. And
that may<br>actually be the problem here, unless the NAS drive is really old, it<br>probably prefers cifs. Give it a try.<br><br>James<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk></blockquote><br><p> 
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