smb/nfs in fstab what am i doing wrong?

[geekyhawkes]

Hi guys,

I am having some problems connecting my Freecom NAS to my netbook (running hardy) with both SMB and NFS. I am also having issues with 8.10 on my main pc but that seems to be covered in several other topics so I will concentrate on my hardy issues.

I can connect to the NAS via the GUI or via entering the following into Nautilus SMB://192.168.1.108/public/ or smb://FND/PUBLIC. The folders show up correctly and i can access all of the files.

I have followed several guides here and entered the following into my /etc/fstab file:

//192.168.1.108/PUBLIC /media/nas cifs user=myusername,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

I have also tried:
//FND/PUBLIC /media/nas cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

with the credentials file containing my username and password.

The problem i have is that the above seems correct for SMB but when i type the following into the terminal i get the following error;

Sudo mount /media/nas

I am prompted for my password if i dont use the credentials file (correctly) and then i get

mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page.

I have even tried to create an aditional directory in the /media folder and still cannot mount to it.

I then decided to try NFS and entered the following into my fstab;

192.168.1.108UBLIC /media/fnd nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0

and still no joy.

Can someone please give me a hand getting this to work, as I cannot find anymore solutions in the guides around and I am getting really bored of using FTP to connect to my NAS.

Thanks;

andy

[geekyhawkes]

I should prob say that I get the same mount error 20 = not a directory refer to the mount.cifs ( 8 ) manual page (e.gman mount.cifs)

when i try a manual mount useing;
sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharse t=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

Thinking out loud, would it be worth trying to connect with smbfs? The nas isnt that old (about 12-18months) and has its firmware up to date, but this is a daft fault

[cdtech]

Have you tried using the DNS hostname, rather than the IP address?

[geekyhawkes]

yes, it works fine from within nautilus but neither DNS name (FND in my case) or the IP address mount the drive from fstab. Same if i try manually from the terminal, i just always end up with the mount error 20.

Just having a look in synaptic package manager, ive noticed that i have samba-common installed but not the samba 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7 module listed above. That the issue? I just dont understand how nautilus can mount and explore but fstab and manual dont work.

[cdtech]

Try removing the slashes from the fstab and see if that gets you in.

[geekyhawkes]

I have just removed the leading // from this line in fstab and inserted the netbios name;
FND/PUBLIC /media/nas cifs user=myusername,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

When i type sudo mount /media/nas i get the following
mount error: improperly formatted UNC name. FND/Public does not begin with // or \\ No ip address specified and hostname not found.

Thanks for your help so far, im hoping we can crack it

EDIT: Ive just noticed some strange behaviour. If i use my Nautilus bookmark to try and access the nas i get Generic error. If i type smb://fnd/public each time in nautilus it works fine. More confused than ever!

[geekyhawkes]

Anyone got any other ways forward for me please?

[rcc1123]

I have just removed the leading // from this line in fstab and inserted the netbios name;
FND/PUBLIC /media/nas cifs user=myusername,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

When i type sudo mount /media/nas i get the following
mount error: improperly formatted UNC name. FND/Public does not begin with // or \\ No ip address specified and hostname not found.

Thanks for your help so far, im hoping we can crack it

EDIT: Ive just noticed some strange behaviour. If i use my Nautilus bookmark to try and access the nas i get Generic error. If i type smb://fnd/public each time in nautilus it works fine. More confused than ever!

Try FND:/PUBLIC /media/nas nfs 0 0

[geekyhawkes]

Tried as described above but terminal returned the following error;

mount.nfs an incorrec mount option was specified.

Who would have thought this would be so difficult?

[geekyhawkes]

Any one else able to help? Im going out of my mind trying to get this drive to mount on startup!