[ILUG] cifs client F12, cifs server on NAS (Linux based)

[Conor Wynne]

Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> On 28/10/09 16:20, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> --snip--
>>>
>>> On client F12, user id 500, remote nas user id 1001.
>>
>> Couple of things:
>>
>> a) Is this mount purely for desktop use?
>>
>> If yes, you'd almost certainly be better off using the GVFS/samba
>> support inside GNOME:
>>
>> Places -> Connect to Server... -> <fill in the blanks>
>
> Did that, firefox didn't see it (the // share).
>
>>
>> b) That your NAS has user IDs makes me suspect it might possibly be a
>> Unix box of some sort.
>
> It's linux, going by the web blurb.
>
>  If so, why not just use NFS?
>
> Tried, but got nowhere,
> no mounts, though followed this:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/client.html
# showmount -e servername_or_ipaddress