Re: [Hampshire] Nas mounting problem

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim" <xendistar@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: [Hampshire] Nas mounting problem


>
> I am having a strange mounting problem with my NAS, it has a single share
> which I have given full open access to on the NAS.
>
> Eventually I will put the entry in the fstab but I have been trying to
> mount
> it manually with the following command as a user
>
> mount //192.168.1.250/share1/mp3 /mnt/mp3
>
> But this results in an error saying only root can do this, if I try as
> root I
> get
>
> root@4[mit]# mount //192.168.1.250/share1/mp3 /mnt/mp3
> Password:
> 31049: session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
> name/password
> pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> SMB connection failed
>
> But the mp3 share mounts and I have full access to it as a user, and as
> for
> the password it is asking for I don't have a clue, nothing I enter works
>
> Now if I unmount it I get
>
> root@4[mit]# umount //192.168.1.250/share1/mp3 /mnt/mp3
> umount: //192.168.1.250/share1/mp3: not found
> umount: /mnt/mp3: not mounted
>
> and yes it unmounts
>
> If I put //192.168.1.250/share1/mp3 into Konqueror I can access the mp3
> files
> as normal with out problem.
>
> Any suggestions
>
> Tim
>

The following worked for me:

sudo mount -t smbfs //servername/share /mnt/wherever

It then asks for 2 passwords - the first is your console's root account, the
next I just hit return (but that'll obviously depend on whatever security
you have setup on your NAS).

Hope of some use.

Cheers
Rob