On 20 February 2010 11:18, Simon Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 20 February 2010 00:50, Jon Reynolds <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for the link, but I think I can't solve my problem like that as >> this is a NAS drive, not another machine's share. >> >> So am still a bit dumbfounded. >> >> > In my experience some of these network drives don't use TCP/IP but a hacked > version of IPX. Did you have to install drivers for it in Windows? > > Simon > > I have a netgear NAS1100 which uses samba shares. which as you say just mounts in winxp no problem. trying to get it to mount in linux had me going round in circles. eventually turned out i needed to mount a share not the root of the machine eg. //192.168.0.3/media/ not //192.168.0.3/ and use the name of the share as username with blank password. "sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/media/ /media/fnd/ -o username=<NameOfShare>,password='',file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777" this may not be the case but hey worth a try. azmodie
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