Oops, that was for a for a drive attached to my netgear router. The Buffalo
NAS entry in /etc/fstab is
//192.168.xx.xxx/linode /mnt/lswx2/linode cifs
rw,nounix,username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx,uid=mark,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755
0 0
But I had the same issues with both cifs mounts.
Mark
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Mark Phillips
<
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
> I know I am chiming in her rather late, but I have had problems in the
> past mounting my Buffalo NAS from Linux. This is what I have in my fstab -
>
> //192.168.25.3/USB_Storage /mnt/readyshare cifs
> rw,nounix,dom=PMI,user=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxx,uid=mark,gid=mark,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755
> 0 0
>
> Check your syslog and/or dmesg when you mount. I had errors in the logs
> even though I could read and write the NAS drive. I found that I needed the
> nounix command to get rid of some of the errors.
>
> This error:
> [2480664.321842] CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo = -5
> [2480664.321870] CIFS VFS: Negotiating Unix capabilities with the server
> failed. Consider mounting with the Unix Extensions
> [2480664.321873] disabled, if problems are found, by specifying the nounix
> mount option.
>
> needed nounix to stop this error.
>
> I still get lots of these after using nounix (note the time stamps)
> [Fri Aug 23 08:42:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4
> [Fri Aug 23 08:44:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4
> [Fri Aug 23 08:46:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4
>
> From what I have read on Google searches for this error, I have to wait
> for Linux 3.2 to remove these errors. I am using Linux version
> 3.1.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.1.8-2) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.6.2
> (Debian 4.6.2-11) on one machine and Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian
> 2.6.32-48squeeze3) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4)
> ) on another machine and both exhibit this error. But transferring files
> works.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/22/2013 10:55 PM, Wayne Davis wrote:
>>> IT FRIGGIN WORKS!
>>>
>>
>> Yay!
>>
>> I had to do a bit more investigating, BUT at least you gave the
>>> foundation
>>> Matt! I thank EVERYONE involved. It was a road to get here, but HERE
>>> I AM.
>>> sudo mount.cifs -o sec=ntlm,username=XXXX,**password=XXXX
>>> //<IPADDRESS>/SHARE /mnt/other
>>>
>>
>> This is actually a bit odd. sec=ntlm is the default setting here on this
>> older CentOS box. I wonder if they've changed the default setting to
>> sec=ntlm2 on the most recent Samba packages or something. (NTLM2 is only
>> available on recent 'Doze machines IIRC, while NTLM has been available for
>> a very long time.)
>>
>>
>> I went back to the NAS and set it to "public". Now I do not need
>>> the USER/PASS
>>>
>>
>> This is less secure, but if this is only available to your home network,
>> convenience may be more important than security.
>>
>>
>> It wound up being SO simple and I knew it was...
>>>
>>
>> Many things are when you know all the stuff that's happening. "The
>> password for this automated job is 'password509'." Fat-finger this as
>> 'password508'. Spend a long time wondering why the automated job isn't
>> working, because the error messages from the job failing are being sent to
>> someone who isn't me who's wondering why they're getting fail mail.
>>
>>
>> Matt, if you're ever up here in North Phoenix, let me buy you
>>> a beer or 3 (Cave Creek Rd /Union Hills area) IF your old
>>> enough to do so of course....
>>>
>>
>> That's a bit of a ways to go for me (Tempe, south of ASU) but I'll keep
>> it in mind if I'm ever out there. I remember using Logo on an Apple //c
>> without a color monitor in the 1980s, so I'm probably old enough :-) .
>>
>> --
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>> There is no Darkness in Eternity
>> But only Light too dim for us to see.
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