Samba - The bane of my existence EUREKA!!!!!!!!!!

[Derek Trotter]

Congratulations.  You should celebrate. If I were in your shoes, and in 
the Valley, I'd head over to the George and Dragon.  If you do, be sure 
to not drive yourself home.  On the other hand, if you like green 
bologna ...... :-)

Now if I could only get this bloody thing to quit locking up on me.

On 08/22/2013 10:55 PM, Wayne Davis wrote:
> OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG 
> OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
>
> IT FRIGGIN WORKS!
>
>
> 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.
> THIS is what ultimately worked:
>
> *sudo mount.cifs -o sec=ntlm,username=xxxx,password=xxxx 
> //<IPaddress>/SHARE /mnt/other*
>
> If omit sudo, it needs to be in the fstab
>
> I went back to the NAS and set it to "public".  Now I do not need the 
> USER/PASS so it is now:
>
>
> *sudo mount.cifs -o sec=ntlm  //<IPaddress>/SHARE /mnt/other*
>
> These things must use NT Lanmangler security protocols?
>
> It wound up being SO simple and I knew it was...  Being CLUELESS SUCKS.
>
> 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.... otherwise, its milk & cookies for you my friend, TOLL 
> HOUSE, not some cheap store-bought crap.
>
> ;-)
>
> WOW, I,m am SOOOOOoooooooooooooooo  happy right now.
>
> :-) :-) ;-) :-P :-D ....8-)
>
>
>
>
> On 08/22/2013 03:13 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>>  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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