[GLLUG] Intro and network drive

[Davide Giannella]

thank you everyone. Eventually I had time to sit down and look at this issue.

It was easier than ever.

At first mdns-scan was not picking anything up of course. Then I saw
in gnome that it was trying to connect to network (wired) but failed.

It was easy as creating a new wired network profile. From the
top-right, click on the batteries. Or under "wired settings".
Then add a new network profile
   Identity: Lacie Network
   MTU: automatic
   IPv4: Link-local only
   IPv6: Link-local only

As soon as connected to such network the mdns-scan managed to pick the
drive address, nautilus automatically showed the drive on which I was
able to simply click and put in the driver's user/pass to connect to
the share.

A minor thing, non blocking is that it mount the driver under a quite
deep place that I'd like to change to something more meaningful. For
example in this round of mounting is:
/run/user/1001/gvfs/smb-share:port=139,server=networkspacemax.local,share=myshare/.
Anyone with hints on this already would be appreciated. Otherwise I
will give some research and in case I'll manage in my backup scripts.

Cheers
Davide

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 14:49, Travis Mooney <ttmooney at ttmooney.com> wrote:
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> Hey Davide —
>
> If that’s the case you should see it with mdns-scan. I don’t use Gnome 3 (still on Mate) but I’d expect it to pick up the share from zeroconf as well.
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> On 23 Mar 2020, at 14:27, Davide Giannella via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 23/03/2020 11:05, Travis Mooney wrote:
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> Are any other computers/devices successfully
>
> connecting?
>
>
> You mean any other computer connecting to the disk? If so, I can easily plug the same way into a MBP (OS X) and then from finder use the `Go->Connect to server->smb://Networkspacemax.local/MyShare`. The disk is visible from the Finder sidebar once it boots completely.
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