On 21/12/10 10:41, Graham Smith wrote: > My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command > > sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.10/Public /media/public -o > user=QNAP/username%password > > > BUT I am getting an error that media/public does not exist. > > I assumed that this would create media/public, do I need to create this > in advance and indeed is this the best place to mount it.
This command will not create the directory /media/public now. You need to create it first. > And is that "%" correct man mount.cifs will give you all the options to mount mount a CIFS share. > Additionally, my notes suggest that to mount it everytime I boot needs > the following added to etc/fstab > > //192.168.1.10/Public /home/name/Server1 cifs username=adminz,password= > > But I am now not sure what this means This will attempt to mount the directory "/Public" that is at 192.168.1.10 onto a local director of "/home/name/Server1 using the CIFS protocol type and with the username and password specified. My first observation is that CIFS is an implementation of the Windows broadcast protocol and one normally talks about "shares and servers" rather than IP addresses. So for example sudo mount.cifs //computer-name/share /media/public -o user=username,pass=mypasswd Would be the way I would try at first. Other tools at your disposal might be smbtree to browse your network and see the names of available servers and shares. -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
