Thanks, Alan! That certainly seems to make sense.
Damn... back to the book, to learn about Samba. Having long since dumped the
last W* machine, I thought I'd never have to bother with SMB.
Chris
On 01/12/2007, alan c <aeclist@???> wrote:
>
> Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> > My situation is practically identical to Alan's, except for:
> >
> > A samba share? Does the FAT32 format demand that samba be used? (Why, if
> > the file system is accessible when the device is connected via USB or
> > when using FTP?)
>
> I think samba protocols probably have to be used (in the case of my
> NAS unit) because it is the NAS unit which is serving the other
> devices on my network (PCs) which are sometimes reading the data. Thus
> the server which is internal in the NAS is key to making the data
> available. or presumably it would be a write-(into)-only box. The NAS
> unit only comes with facilities for smb server, ftp server, usb direct
> connection. It does not have any NFS server facilities. It is sold to
> be acting like a windows PC in this sense I guess. The process of
> mounting presumably ensures correct protocol for subsequent use.
>
> So samba has to be spoken for that reason. (?)
>
> I have now discovered - that when mounting manually (in terminal
> commands) the smbmount facility has to be used, and when adding the
> entry into fstab, the file system is declared as smbfs
>
> So far, as luck and many helpers have allowed, mine is working well!
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