cifs mount on HDR-Fox T2

[awiatr]

I have the latest custom firmware on my HDR-Fox T2 and have installed the cifs package, but I am unable to mount a cifs volume which mounts ok on an Ubuntu machine on the same network:

hdrfoxt2# mount -t cifs //192.168.0.248/Volume_1 "/media/My Video/nas" -o username=username,password=password
mount: mounting //192.168.0.248/Volume_1 on /media/My Video/nas failed: No such device or address

hdrfoxt2# ls -al "/media/My Video/nas"
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 13:03 .

The mount also fails on my HD-Fox T2.

 

[Black Hole]

The easiest way to go is to use the network-shares-automount package. There is an entire topic about it HERE (click).

 

[awiatr]

Thanks, that worked fine.

I had to change the share name from Volume_1 to Volume1 as the package/script changed the underscore to a /

 

[Black Hole]

The "_" is a proxy for "/", which could not otherwise be entered using that interface.

 

[awiatr]

Sure, thanks again.

 

[ejstubbs]

I am having a similar problem. My command line to the Humax is:

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.nnn/Video/ MediaShare -o username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx
mount: mounting //192.168.0.nnn/Video/ on MediaShare failed: No such device or address​

MediaShare is a directory in 'My Video' created using mkdir.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[prpr]

Am I doing something wrong?

YES!

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.nnn/Video/ MediaShare -o username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.nnn/Video "/media/My Video/MediaShare" -o username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx,unc=\\\\192.168.0.nnn\\Video

mount is particularly stupid about having to specify the same info. twice in a slightly different format, but the Unix/Linux folk never really have embraced SMB networking properly.

 

[ejstubbs]

Thank you, that seemed to do the trick! (It was the unc option that got it working. I was already in the media/My Video directory and had created the MediaShare folder.)