Many thanks for your reply.<br><br>I have triedthe syntax as suggested and get the same error. I used STORAGE-AEC9 as the servername as that is the name that the device seems to have in the web admin view.<br><br>I don't know whether it provides further clues, but this command works<br>
smbclient -I <ip address> -W WORKGROUP //STORAGE-AEC9/<share><br><br>I've also been recommended to try<br><span class="nfakPe">echo</span> <span class="nfakPe">0</span> > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled<br>
<br>before the mount command, but this makes no difference either.<br><br>'o-Dzin<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Hugh Saunders <<a href="mailto:hugh@mjr.org">hugh@mjr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:32 PM, 'o-Dzin Tridral <<a href="mailto:tridral@gmail.com">tridral@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm going to contact<br>
> the drive manufacturer and find out more from them.<br>
<br>
</div>Ask which version of samba they are using..<br>
<br>
After a quick google, it looks like one reason for mount error 5 is<br>
using a CIFS client to connect to an SMB share.<br>
<br>
I think CIFS can handle SMB but requires some extra parameters, did<br>
you try this syntax from the pdf?<br>
"mount -t cifs //tcp-name-of-server/sharename /mnt -o<br>
user=username,sec=lanman,servern=SERVERNAME"<br>
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