On Thursday 15 March 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've bought a drive with usb and network connection. I used the usb to
> quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it onto
> the network after that. The blurb on the box said it would just pick an
> ip by dhcp. However, it seems to me that I need to know something about
> it in order to mount it, and I've got a total blank on where to go next.
> Nothing appears in /var/log/messages.
>
> I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry
> in /etc/hosts. Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I
> haven't a clue how to mount it. Any ideas?
>
> Anne
It depends on the drive. You need to know what protocols it
supports. You may be able to access it using smbclient, and mount as
a cifs mount. The first thing I would try is to connect to the
drive's IP address from a web browser, and see it it offers a
configuration page. You will probably need to set the name and
workgroup. The drive may also offer NFS mounts. You will probably
need to do some configuration there as well.
Maybe I've right-royally screwed up here :-) It came formatted as ntfs, so I
removed the partition and created ext3 and vfat partitions. If any software
was on there I'll have lost it.
The browser doesn't see it.
Anne