On 24/06/11 12:58, Tim wrote:
>
> I have a small nas on my network (lacie single disk). This is mounted
> on my PC (Debian mint edition) via the following line in the fstab file
>
> //192.168.0.250/openshare/data /media/share smbfs
> defaults,uid=me,gid=me 0 0
>
> This mounts the disk and I can read - write to the disk without a
> problem.
>
> How do I mount this disk on another PC which my wife uses, she is
> running Debian squeeze. I have tried adding the same line above to my
> wife's PC fstab file using both her name and my name in the uid but
> neither seem to work. If I look in the logs on her PC I see this in
> the logs;
>
> CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Abort operation
> CIFS VFS: cifs mount failed w\return code = 512
>
> I think it has something to do with user security but that is just a
> guess, I have googled but can't see anything particularly relevant to
> my problem. There is no options to change any user access setting on
> the nas, there are only two areas on the disk to save data, openshare
> and myshare. Openshare is the full access area for everybody to use
> and myshare is my own private section. I just want to give the wife
> access to openshare?
>
> Tim
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Answering my own post, it helps if you create the /media/share folder :o
I hate it when I miss simple things like that.
Tim
