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
