On Thursday 15 March 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson 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? > > > > Anne > > It depends on the drive. You need to know what protocols it > supports. You may be able to access it using smbclient, and mount as > a cifs mount. The first thing I would try is to connect to the > drive's IP address from a web browser, and see it it offers a > configuration page. You will probably need to set the name and > workgroup. The drive may also offer NFS mounts. You will probably > need to do some configuration there as well. > Maybe I've right-royally screwed up here :-) It came formatted as ntfs, so I removed the partition and created ext3 and vfat partitions. If any software was on there I'll have lost it. The browser doesn't see it. Anne
