CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

OK, this is driving me bonkers so if anyone has any insight I'd really appreciate it.
I have an uNSLUng NSLU NAS (it wasn't unslung when I started this project!). The shares are accessible from my XP & Ubuntu clients.
I've followed the HowTo on accessing Windows shares on the N800 using CIFS. I can see my directories (sweet!) yet File Manager reports "Unable to open files" when I try to display the contents of those folders. It'll list the files, but they're all grey and unclickable.
The account I've specified in fstab works from the other network clients.
SMBBrowser refuses to mount the shares even though it creates the mount point directory. I used the same user\pass as the XP clients.
I think the last thing I'll try is Twonky but I just don't understand why the current setup doesn't do it.
Anyone got any stunningly bright ideas?

Thanks

NM

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

for me i have to click on file| scan host after i enter the username, even if it is already showing up. if you do a search i have writen the exact sequence of events,to connenect.

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASS //fjall/test /root/mnt

this is an example of how I mounted things after loading cifs.ko

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

what is the SMBbrowser you speak of?

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

Hey Brendan

It's the SMBbrowser from the garage;

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/smbbrowser/

You have to get smbfs as well - https://garage.maemo.org/frs/shownot...release_id=132 has instructions

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

Brendan said he's on the N800, therefore this will not work (unfortunately).

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

hmmm... i have the cifs.ko for the n800 and i have had very little luck mounting a smb share on my linux machine.

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

hmm, maybe that's why I've had no luck with smbbrowser - I too am using a N800 :) For some reason I thought it was OK to use on the N800. Oh well.

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

i know that the smbclient and smbserver packages were never ported for the n800, and the cifs.ko work around was put in to cover the functionality.

i did get the cifs.ko method to work *once*, and since then, i have had no luck. i will have to hack a little more to see if i am using the wrong parameters or what.

Re: CIFS = "Could I Find Someone" to help me before I lose my mind!
 

I have updated my N800 to the new OS2007. I have fetched the cifs kernel module from http://handhelds.org/~fanoush/maemo/...06.51-6.tar.gz. This is not up to date with the new kernel. Still I could insmod without a problem. Both lsmod and cat /proc/filesystems show the module cifs "alive". Then I used the command
mount -t cifs -o user=*,password=* //ip-addr/share /mount-point
This gives me access to a Linux-samba share and a Win-XPSP2 share.

I do not need the samba packages. The cifs.ko is enough. There is some confusion wrt. smb and cifs :-(