<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 December 2010 10:41, Graham Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myotistwo@gmail.com">myotistwo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">sudo mount -t cifs //<a href="http://192.168.1.11/Public" target="_blank">192.168.1.10/Public</a> /media/public -o user=QNAP/username%password</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">BUT I am getting an error that media/public does not exist.</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">I assumed that this would create media/public, do I need to create this in advance and indeed is this the best place to mount it.</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">And is that "%" correct</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">Additionally, my notes suggest that to mount it everytime I boot needs the following added to etc/fstab</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><pre style="border-width: 1px; border-style: inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; min-height: 34px; text-align: left;"> //<a href="http://192.168.1.110/MyFiles" target="_blank">192.168.1.10/</a>Public /home/name/Server1 cifs username=adminz,password=</pre></span></span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">But I am now not sure what this means</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;">Should I be adding</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><br> </span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><pre style="border-width: 1px; border-style: inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; min-height: 34px; text-align: left;"> //<a href="http://192.168.1.110/MyFiles" target="_blank">192.168.1.10/</a>Public /home/media/public cifs username=username,password=</pre><pre style="border-width: 1px; border-style: inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; min-height: 34px; text-align: left;"> Many thanks,</pre><pre style="border-width: 1px; border-style: inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; min-height: 34px; text-align: left;"><br></pre><pre style="border-width: 1px; border-style: inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; min-height: 34px; text-align: left;"> Graham</pre></span></span></span></font></div> <br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br>No, mount doesn't create a mount point, you have to do that. /media is now the standard though.<br><br>/media is in the root file system by default and makes the disc available to everyone, so the fstab entry should be <br> <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">//<a href="http://192.168.1.10/Public">192.168.1.10/Public</a> /media/public cifs username=username,password=password</span><br><br>s/<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<br> "Is this your sanderling?"<br><br>