Thank you very much for your suggestions!
Unfortunately, nfs is not an option. One of my two NAS (the Netgear)
supports nfs, but I found out, that if I bind writing rights to some IPs
of my subnet, it's working with that device.
Unfortunately the kernel, of the other device, does not support nfs.
There's a community-build kernel supporting this, but I do not have
enough confidence in my linux knowledge to change the kernel.
But I am confused what's the difference between mounting a share (via
mount -t ... or editing the fstab) and accessing the share with nautilus
(smb://u...@192.xxx.xxx.xxx/share)?
I always thought, that cifs is the newer version of smb and that there
aren't many differences.
When I am looking for mounted devices (mount or df) I don't get anything
about the shares, which are accessed via nautilus - so they are not
mounted!?
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Julian Klein
Am 15.04.2010 19:14, schrieb Steven J. Yellin:
It doesn't look as if anybody has suggested solutions for your
problem, so here's some information that probably won't help, but might:
I have a Western Digital ShareSpace NAS which, like your devices,
did not preserve uid/gid on files copied to it under nfs. But the web
interface for controlling the NAS shows an advanced option permitting
root SSH access. I didn't see the option in the manual, but it's
there, and maybe it's available on one or both of your devices. After
(temporarily) enabling SSH and logging onto the NAS as root (then
changing the password), it became clear that it's a computer with a
tiny memory and a puny processor running a small linux operating
system to control disk space with the help of software raid. In its
/etc/exports was a line
/nfs/Public *(rw,all_squash,sync,insecure,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
Changing the line to
/nfs/Public *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
and doing '/etc/init.d/S80nfsd reload' resulted in preservation of
uid/gid on files copied to it under nfs.
Steven Yellin
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, julian_klein wrote:
Hello,
I've some problems mounting some folders, located on NAS-Devices.
One is a old freecom fsg-3, the other one is a newer Netgear Duo.
When I'm mounting the folders into a mountpoint in my user-folder
using fstab, i can open, delete, copy or rename files using nautilus
without any proplems.
But when I open any file with an application - for example with
openoffice writer or another application - i can't save the file
without problems. I have to save it localy, and then I have to paste
it with nautilus. I can't create "working" files at all with an
application .
But the "save-copies" witch are made for example by openoffice in my
user-folder (.../.openoffice/...) will be empty files. In the
cifs-folder, the files are created, but are empty (0 Byte) files.
When I open existing files I get an error, that openoffice can't
create the save-copy. When I try to create files with openoffice, the
error message says "General E/A error" (this error-message is
translated).
My fstab is like that:
//[IP-Numer-NAS]/[folder]
/home/userfolder]/[folder] cifs
rw,username=blabla,password=blabla 0 0
On the NAS-devices, uids and gids are different from uids/gids on my
workstation, so using nfs is no option, I think.
When I mount the folders, using the gnome-menu option "Verbindung zu
Server..." everything works fine.
So I think, obviously there is something wrong with my fstab syntax.
Could somebody help me with that?
thx in advance,
Julian
