On 08/21/2013 07:37 PM, James Dugger wrote:
Sorry for the confusion. Based on your description, the WD
N750 router is acting as a NAS (Network Sttached Storage)

Is this true? If the router/whatever is serving stuff over SMB, then you don't need Samba, you need mount.cifs .

On 2013-08-22 14:45, ChasM Marshall wrote:
If the NAS box is requesting a password, something is weird. You said
it has no Win restrictions.
Your NAS device must have a Linux device name.
Because it is a router, I think it is connected on the Linux device
named "/dev/eth0".

This is ... flawed. First off, ethernet interfaces have not had device nodes in Linux for a long time unless you're doing TUN/TAP or something like that. Second, a SMB server has a name associated with it, but it doesn't have an associated device node. DNS, NetBIOS, or IP addresses are what the mount.cifs things use to talk to the remote server.

If you know this device's IP address, you could try something like this:

smbclient -L 192.168.X.Y
(should give you a list of all the services that are on 192.168.X.Y)

mkdir /mnt/other
mount -t cifs //192.168.X.Y/SHARE /mnt/other

SHARE needs to be a filesystem share that the device is making available. In many environments, you usually need to add "-o user=USER,domain=DOMAIN" to the above mount command so that the server knows you're using the correct username and domain. If guest access is available, you may not need "user=guest", but that's something to try if the first try doesn't work.

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