Re: Networked hard drive

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On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've bought a drive with usb and network connection.  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?
>
> I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
> in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
> start looking around in the mean time.
>
> Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
> advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort.  There are
> probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
> attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
> Gnome/KDE at this point.
>
I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as ext3 
and a small part as vfat.  Maybe I have to go back to usb connection and set 
the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them.

> As a last ditch effort, you could turn on a packet sniffer (assuming
> that the drive and your sniffer are on the same ethernet segment and
> not separated by a switch) and look for the SMB advertisement blocks.
>
Later, if necessary.

Thanks

Anne

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