September 13, 2007, at 05:04 PM
Tips /

MountingStorCenter

Being the happy owner of a StorCenter and having managed to install a GNU/Linux distro on my desktop computer, it makes perfect sense to use the network hard drive ;)

Making Windows and GNU/Linux talk to each other can be done thanks to Samba but if all one wants to do is access network drives, smbfs (may not been maintained anymore but it works and is in the rep of Ubuntu).

sudo apt-get install smbfs

Then one needs to decide where to mount the beast i.e. create a mounting point. /media is the usual location, I chose to call it backup.

sudo mkdir /media/backup

Next you need to find out the host name of the hard drive. I am sure programs exist to do that automagically but I could find out from Windows directly so I didn't look for one. (Iomega now distributes on called discoverylx ]]

Last but not least the mounting command ;) Iomega-00ef81 is the host name.

sudo mount -t smbfs //Iomega-00ef81/NetHDD /media/backup

Because that hard drive is not always on (it is actually rarely on), I will not play with fstab yet but there must be a way to automount it when it is turned on ...