[Bug 226777] Re: Impossible to correctly use Samba Shares on a NAS with Ubuntu

Rolf Leggewie launchpad.net at rolf.leggewie.biz
Tue May 27 13:36:38 BST 2008


I believe, I am experiencing a similar issue.  My NAS[1] is a very cheap
box that is apparently based on the RDC R2882-G chip[2].  I found a
report on the net of another Linux user who owns a NAS box with the same
chip who was having similar problems to those I experienced[3].  He
apparently managed to get things going by simply installing the
forgotten smbfs package.  Unfortunately, in my case, smbfs had already
been installed so that was no fix for me.  I still experienced
difficulties similar to those reported here.  En detail:

* Browsing of the Samba share via Nautilus works fine.  But sometimes the connection becomes unresponsive after a few minutes.
   I attributed this to a timed suspend function for the hard drive in the case.  This is not my main concern
* smbclient -L mynas works and spits out the following (strange characters included)
   Password: 
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	PUBLIC          Disk      
	IPC$            IPC       
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
* Inspired by this bug, I found out that I can also use smbclient to connect directly and that works fine, too.
   $ smbclient //mynas/PUBLIC
   Password: 
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]
   smb: \> 
* mounting, though, does not.  And that is a problem for me.
   $ sudo mount -t smbfs //mynas/PUBLIC /mnt/test
   Password: 
   mount error 20 = Not a directory
   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
   $ sudo mount -t cifs //mynas/PUBLIC /mnt/test
   Password: 
   mount error 20 = Not a directory
   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


Notes:
[1] http://oss.leggewie.org/nas/ and http://www.pyrogate.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=62
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20061009090701/http://www.rdc.com.tw/eng/product_more.asp?pid=85
[3] http://ts.hastu.net/node/6

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Impossible to correctly use Samba Shares on a NAS with Ubuntu
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