[Tfug] Mounting NAS on Debian

[brandon]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com>wrote:

>
> mount -t cifs -o user=myusername password=mypassword //192.168.x.x/SHARE
> /mnt/<mountpoint>
>
> I'm having no luck.
>
> The address is: 192.168.x.x
> The hostname is yyyyyy
> The username is myusername
> The password is mypassword
>
> If I use smb://192.168.x.x in the Konqueror address bar, the folder SHARE
> shows up in the Konqueror window; and I move files into SHARE. Now that
> smb://192.168.x.x/SHARE/ contains backups, I would like to mount it for fun,
> but can't.
>
> Does Debian allow this?
>
> I downloaded samba and smbfs.  Maybe I need to reboot.  I tried the above
> mount command with and without a comma, replaced the URL with hostname, etc.
>  But I guess I'm missing something.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
> --
>

Hi Charles-
You said that it won't mount but you didn't say what error message you are
receiving. Typically when something fails to mount you get at least a
message stating to check dmesg. Also what version of debian are you running?

Thanks
-Brandon
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