How to mount a Dlink DNS-323 NAS in Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit and 64 bit

[runes]

NOTE:
For the sake of this tutuorial we are assuming that you log in to Ubuntu 8.10 (32bit or 64 bit) with the username doej...where you see the username doej you would substitue with your username.

Rule # 1 BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
Rule # 2 Refer to Rule # 1

What you need to know:
The ip address of your NAS in my case and for this tutorial it is 192.168.0.40 yours may be different
The names of your folders for sharing fir this tutorial there are two folders on my share I want to mount within my home folder of /home/doej:
Documents
Music

What you need to install:
smbfs and if missing smbclient
How to install?

Click System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager
under the Quick search type in smbfs and if not green check it
under the Quick search type in smbclient and if not green check it
clic apply then click apply again


Now onto the mounting of your NAS folders:

NOTE: Remember that the foldernames are CaSe sensitive so check that you use the proper case!


First step:
create file in /root called .smbcredentials
add:
username=username to log into nas
password=password to log into nas

Commands to do this:
Click applications>accessories>Terminal
sudo touch /root/.smbcredentials
sudo nano .smbcredentials
username=username to log into nas
password=password to log into nas
press ctrl-o to save the file
press ctrl-x to exit
now type in sudo chmod 600 /root/.smbcredentials


Samba Configuration:

First thing we do is backup the original configuration file
We start with creating a folder in your home directory called Backups to place the original files

Click Applications>Accessories>Terminal

type in:

sudo mkdir /home/doej/Backups

Next step is to create two mount points in your home folder so that you can browse Music and Downloads within your home folder to mount your shares so you can browse them in Places and on your desktop. In this example we will create two folders in /home/doej called MusicNAS and DownloadsNAS so that we know the files we see are from the NAS once again these foldernames are CaSe sensitive :

sudo mkdir /home/doej/MusicNAS
sudo mkdir /home/doej/DocumentsNAS

then type in:
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /home/doej/Backups/smb.conf

You have now made a backup of your smb file in /home/doej/Backups

sudo nano /etc/ samba smb.conf
Under the heading #======================= Global Settings =======================
add line :

# This allows older lanman autorization for the Dlink NAS-323

client lanman auth=yes

then press ctrl-o to save the file
press ctrl-x to exit

To fix an unmounting issue with cifs(samba) when rebooting type:
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh

Next step it to automount your shares so that they are there everytime you log in! This required editing your fstab file...our first step is to back it up before making any changes.
FSTAB Configuration:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /home/doej/Backups/fstab
You have now made a backup of your fstab file in /home/doej/Backups

Now to tell fstab to mount your shares

sudo nano /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=ee64b879-124a-48a0-95ef-650fc9a1ceb7 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=123792b0-ea3f-4d59-8f38-a036af9435ce none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
//192.168.0.40/Downloads /home/doej/DownloadsNAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0
//192.168.0.40/Music /home/doej/MusicNAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0


The last two lines are the ones we add manually starting with the ipaddress of your nas then the folder you want to mount then the home folder you want to mount it to.

Once completed you then hit CRTL-O then CRTL-X to save and exit
Last step:
mount -a
This will mount your shares.

[dmizer]

Just FYI, there is no need to edit smb.conf. You can specify lanman auth in the cifs mount like so:

//192.168.0.40/Music /home/doej/MusicNAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,sec=lanman,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

[runes]

Just FYI, there is no need to edit smb.conf. You can specify lanman auth in the cifs mount like so:

//192.168.0.40/Music /home/doej/MusicNAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,sec=lanman,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

One problem with that..in the case of the Dlink NAS 323...it still uses lanman auth..so a person who does not add that to the smb.conf will not be able to log in by browsing through Places>Network and connect to their NAS...it will only allow them to mount the predefined shares they create in fstab and only access those shares.

If they are not concerned with browsing all their folders on the NAS and just want to mount a few of them then I agree, your solution will work best. The moment I commented out the reference to lanman in smb.conf I lost access to browsing the NAS Through Nautilus...unless there is another way?

[chennaivennai]

Folks,

A newbie question here. I tried connecting my Ubuntu 9.10-thinkpad Z61t laptop, and followed the steps specified here. The error tells me this:

[mntent]: line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad

Line 14 is the only line that I've added and this error .

I also do not have user-name/ password set up on the DNS-323, What would my entries on the .smbcredentials look like.

Appreciate your responses.

Thanks
CV!

[dmizer]

Folks,

A newbie question here. I tried connecting my Ubuntu 9.10-thinkpad Z61t laptop, and followed the steps specified here. The error tells me this:

[mntent]: line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad

Line 14 is the only line that I've added and this error .

I also do not have user-name/ password set up on the DNS-323, What would my entries on the .smbcredentials look like.

Appreciate your responses.

Thanks
CV!

Please post the contents of your /etc/fstab. Please be sure to enclose the output in [code] bbc markup like so
[code]/etc/fstab output[/code]

[immoweichert]

Hi, I had the same problems like chennaivennai.
I don't have a password for my NAS and I also wanted to mount the complete drive into the folder DNS-323 which shows up as the directory Volume_1. The address of my NAS is 192.168.0.199. Like chennai I got the"line .. in /etc/fstab is bad" message (relating to the last line) after entering sudo mount -a

I found a solution in the D-link forum http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=7848.0

So in my situation to mount just once I had to enter

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.199/Volume_1 /home/immo/DNS-323 -o guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

in Terminal.

To permanently mount it I added this line as the last line in fstab instead:

//192.168.0.199/Volume_1 /home/immo/DNS-323 cifs guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Oh yes, and I didn't enter anything into .smbcredentials as I don't have a password set up for my NAS.

It works perfectly (though I still have no idea what it all means ... been using linux and ubuntu only for a week ) !!!!!

[immoweichert]

Its meant to be file_mode and not f ile_mode !

[runes]

Folks,

A newbie question here. I tried connecting my Ubuntu 9.10-thinkpad Z61t laptop, and followed the steps specified here. The error tells me this:

[mntent]: line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad

Line 14 is the only line that I've added and this error .

I also do not have user-name/ password set up on the DNS-323, What would my entries on the .smbcredentials look like.

Appreciate your responses.

Thanks
CV!

Can you please post the line you added to your fstab?

[chennaivennai]

//192.168.1.5/Volume_1 /home/uthra/NAS   cifs  credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777       0  0

immoweichert - The fix works! I am on the same boat, been running Ubuntu for the last 15 days on a Thinkpad z61t!

Thanks all for the inputs.

Chennai!

[petit-pere]

Hi,
I hope anybody can help me with my error, because I can't find my way out of this maze

I actually have Ubuntu 9.10

sudo mount -a gives this error

mount : type erroné de syst .de fichiers, option erronée, super bloc
erroné sur //192.168.1.2/volume_1/Multimedia, codepage ou aide manquante ou autre erreur
(pour plusieurs syst. de fichiers (nfs, cifs) vous aurez
besoin d'un programme /sbin/mount.<type> intermédiaire)
Dans quelques cas certaines informations sont utiles dans syslog - essayez
dmesg | tail ou quelque chose du genre

It seems the file system is wrong. I looked into the DNS-323 but couldn't find any information (it's Raid1 BTW)

The fstab file looks like this

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=1ae62acc-1d7f-4855-97dd-eab80ba9e942 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f1274621-63e8-4010-83e9-d6467ee9bf47 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
//192.168.1.2/volume_1/Systems /home/herve/NAS-Multimedia cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

Does anybody have an idea about what I'm doing wrong?

That's a lot for your precious help