Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> I've bought a drive with usb and network connection.
>>
> Brand?
>
>
Freecom Classic SL
>> 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?
>>
> Some models don't do standard networked file systems but need a matching
> driver (available for windows and maybe mac).
>
I'll google for that.
> Others do smb (windows)
> sharing and would be visible to a windows box via name broadcasts.
>
>
It's not visible to windows either. Could be my fault, as I told Mikkel.
Anne
Anne
Sorry , I should have read the whole thread before posting...lesson
learnt there!
I've been doing quite a bit with the networked drives like this so I'll
take a look and see what I can see and post back
Bryan