[ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS using curlftpfs

Jon Reynolds maillist at jcrdevelopments.com
Fri Feb 19 15:49:28 GMT 2010


As a follow up, I tried the echo 0 > /proc... and got a different error:

mount: Host is down

I get a different error everytime.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:45:44PM +0000, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Thanks for the replies. I have tried quite a lot before to mount with
> cifs to no avail, but I will try again, perhaps to show you where things
> go wrong...
> 
>     jonr at jonr-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC /media/fnd/
>     -o username=jonr
>     mount: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> So I get that error.
> 
> Also I am unsure about what username and password if any to be using...
> In XP I just map the drive 192.168.0.3 and it appears in explorer... no
> username or password prompt. In fire-FTP in firefox, I need to enter the
> admin user/pass as if I was getting to the NAS web admin page...
> 
> I have set a passowrd on te SMB share bit of the drive but don't know
> where or when it seems to be required.
> 
> Cheers so far.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:31:16PM +0000, Markie wrote:
> > As Dan says its possible with cifs. have a look at my post here when I was
> > using Xubuntu, it might help
> > 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915939
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > On 19 February 2010 14:04, Dan Fish <dan at fishms.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Jon,
> > > The drive is probably using Windows Networking ie samba/cifs compliant.
> > > Have you tried mounting it with cifs ie -
> > > "sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/ /media/fnd/ -o
> > > username=username,password=password,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777"
> > >
> > > It might be easier than using curlftpfs
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Dan Fish
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:29 +0000, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a (dodgey) Freecom Network Drive which seems to mount fine in XP
> > > > using 'Map network drive' just entering the IP-addy/SHARE.
> > > >
> > > > Just cannot get this to mount in Ubuntu (well Xubuntu) so have been
> > > > trying to mount it using curlftpfs, as I can access it via ftp no
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > When I run:
> > > >
> > > >     sudo curlftpfs -o user="username:password" 192.168.0.3:2222/media/fnd/
> > > >
> > > > it seems to go ok, as it returns to the command prompt with no error
> > > > messages, but I cannot 'cd' into /media/fnd
> > > >
> > > >     bash: cd: /media/fnd: Permission denied
> > > >
> > > > ls -l reveals:
> > > >
> > > >     jonr at jonr-laptop:/media$ ls -l
> > > >     ls: cannot access fnd: Permission denied
> > > >     total 8
> > > >     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2009-12-02 22:13 cdrom -> cdrom0
> > > >     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-02 22:13 cdrom0
> > > >     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-02 22:13 cdrom1
> > > >     d????????? ? ?    ?       ?                ? fnd
> > > >
> > > > am not sure what is going on here...
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone advise?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Jon Reynolds
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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