<div dir="ltr">Hey Jay.<div> </div><div>The entry I put up there was for in the fstab file. Then every startup, it mounts it automatically. For a standalone mount statement, I think the format is different.</div><div> </div><div>I think you may want to use "sudo mount -t cifs //<a href="http://192.168.1.23/share" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.1.23/share</a>Â /big_archive/polar"Â and I think there is an option to select the remote user account, but I'm not sure what that is. It may prompt for the remote account.</div><div> </div><div>Give that a try and see if that works for you.</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:49â€¯PM Jay Ridgley <<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 7/14/23 14:00, Steve Grim wrote: > Hey Jay, > > I also had issues setting up access to my Buffalo NAS, several months > ago. I ended up following this webpages: > <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1268590/ubuntu-18-04-mounting-buffalo-linkstation-always-with-parse-error-in-fstab" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/1268590/ubuntu-18-04-mounting-buffalo-linkstation-always-with-parse-error-in-fstab</a> > <a href="https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=8975.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=8975.0</a> > > I have mine set up to automount in the fstab file and it creates the > folder on my Linux desktop: > # <file system>Â Â Â Â Â <mount point> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â <type> <option> > Â <dump>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â <pass> > //<a href="http://192.168.1.64/share" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.1.64/share</a> <<a href="http://192.168.1.64/share" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://192.168.1.64/share</a>> > /home/reaper/Desktop/Buffalo cifs > username=NASUser,password=NASPassword,uid=reaper, > file_mode=0644,vers=1.0 0 0 > (My user account on this Linux system is reaper.) > > I hope this helps. > > Steven > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 2:07â€¯PM Jay Ridgley <<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>> > wrote: > >Â Â Â Good afternoon, > >Â Â Â I have a newly installed LS210D > >Â Â Â Â Â I am attempting to issue a mount command and have not been >Â Â Â successful... > >Â Â Â The command I am using is: > >Â Â Â sudo mount -t cifs //<a href="http://192.168.1.23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.1.23</a> <<a href="http://192.168.1.23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://192.168.1.23</a>> /big_archive > >Â Â Â the IP above is that of the LS210D and /big_archive is the following >Â Â Â directory: > >Â Â Â jay@polar:~$ ls -la /big_archive >Â Â Â total 8 >Â Â Â drwxr-xr-xÂ 2 root root 4096 May 15Â 2020Â . >Â Â Â drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 13 06:53Â .. >Â Â Â -rw-r--r--Â 1 root rootÂ Â Â 0 May 15Â 2020 '**NOT_MOUNTED**' > >Â Â Â which resides on my current system and has been used as a mount boint >Â Â Â for other NAS devices. > >Â Â Â Would someone wh is currently using this device pleas share the mount >Â Â Â command that they use. > >Â Â Â Thanks, > >Â Â Â Jay > > >Â Â Â -- >Â Â Â Jay Ridgley >Â Â Â jridgley2 at <a href="http://austin.rr.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">austin.rr.com</a> <<a href="http://austin.rr.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://austin.rr.com</a>> >Â Â Â Registered Linux User ID - 9115 >Â Â Â <a href="https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png</a> >Â Â Â Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320 > > >Â Â Â -- >Â Â Â ubuntu-users mailing list >Â Â Â <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >Â Â Â Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >Â Â Â <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > Thanks Steven, This is the way I have set up a command line mount for testing: Â Â #Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Buffalo file systemÂ mount point Â Â Â type optionsÂ NOLOGIN required if guest is username sudo mount //<a href="http://192.168.1.23/share" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.1.23/share</a> /big_archive/polar cifs username=guest,uid=jay,file_mode=0644,vers=1.0 the system name is polar the user is me(jay) The response is mount: bad usage Try 'mount --help' for more information trying that seems useless. Does anything above pop out as a problem? Regards, Jay -- Jay Ridgley jridgley2 at <a href="http://austin.rr.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">austin.rr.com</a> Registered Linux User ID - 9115 <a href="https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png</a> Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>