If I try the command as you suggest I get this: j...@jonr-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC /home/jonr/fnd/ -o username=PUBLIC,password='' mount: block device //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC read-only
A different error again! Jon On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:57:38PM +0000, azmodie wrote: > On 20 February 2010 11:18, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 20 February 2010 00:50, Jon Reynolds <maill...@jcrdevelopments.com>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 > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
