On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:04:18PM -0700, samba newbie wrote: > Hello folks. > > I bought a Western Digital NetCenter drive since it > seemed a low-cost way of having a NAS in my home. The > NetCenter drives run GPL'ed software (I downloaded the > source from Western Digital's Web site, and it refers > to Broadcom's "BCM478x Linux NASoC Software." The src > directory also contains samba 3.0.2.) > > The device offers two ways of accessing your data: > through CIFS, or through NFS. There is no security on > NFS shares. You can specify share-level passwords for > CIFS, which is better than nothing, so that seemed to > be the way to go. Also, my data lives on a Windows > box, so CIFS made sense. > > Now, I want to access that data using Samba from > Fedora Core 3 (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3). On my Linux box, I > mount one of the shares using: > > mount -t smbfs -o ro //192.168.0.251/Pictures > /media/Pictures
Don't use smbfs - it's unsupported. Use CIFSFS instead. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
