mount NAS on asus wl500gp

[tex]

Hallo to everybody, does anyone know how to mount a NAS HD connected to the wl500gp with Oleg firmware? This is why i have to add a directory on the NAS to the share folders of twonky server or minidlna configuration page. The NAS has IP 192.168.1.168 and the folder i want to share is /public/media. On the NAS web page this folder is mounted in /mnt/ide4/public/media.
Thank for your kind help

[!gm]

well the webpage of your Kraun speaks of a share... but what protocol?
samba? (no, don't think so, cause you allready tried smbmount as suggested by wpte )

is it nfs? (recommended for such cross device-mounting things)

mount -t nfs HOSTIP:/PATH /MOUNTPOINT

[wpte]

ok you did:

mount -t smbfs -o //GIGABIT-NAS2/public/media /mnt/protected/storage

does the directory exist?

mkdir -p /mnt/protected/storage

Also, it might be better to use the ip, that way you don't have to relay on domain names which may or may not be resolved:

mount -t smbfs -o //192.168.1.168/public/media /mnt/protected/storage

if you execute lsmod you can however conclude you (most likely) don't have smbfs loaded up.
You should find the modules.tar.gz for your firmware revision.
if you've just downloaded from the google-code page you can get them here: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/downloads/list
I include a modules.tar.gz with my builds as well (link in my signature).
The file you look for is called smbfs.ko, it can be found in */kernel/fs/smbfs/ inside the archive.

place it somewhere on your router and you can insmod it.

insmod /file/location/of/smbfs.ko

after that mount should work fine, since at this point your router will suddenly understand smb file system

[tex]

@!gm the file server on the NAS has a flag to enable NFS settings. If i follow your mount instruction i get the following

[admin@hd asus root]$ mount -t nfs 192.168.1.168:/public/media /mnt/protected/St
orage
mount: 192.168.1.168:/public/media failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
mount: mounting 192.168.1.168:/public/media on /mnt/protected/Storage failed: Bad file descriptor

Maybe it's a problem of username and password...but i don't know where put them. In any case in the share management page i put the flag to "grant access to all" and added 192.168.1.1 to "allowable IP".
Bad file descriptor...i don't know!!!

@WPTE
The folder /mnt/protected/storage exists and i can access it from my computer..
Your suggestion has always the same answer

[admin@hd asus root]$ mount -t smbfs -o 192.168.1.168:/public/media /mnt/protect
ed/Storage
mount: can't find /mnt/protected/Storage in /etc/fstab

If i type lsmod

[admin@hd asus root]$ lsmod
Tainted: P
usb-storage 63112 3
sd_mod 12900 6
scsi_mod 72736 2 [usb-storage sd_mod]
videodev 8752 0 (unused)
printer 12500 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 28740 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 27412 0 (unused)
usbcore 78888 1 [usb-storage printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ip_nat_ftp 3072 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 4472 1
wl 897336 0 (unused)
et 29280 0 (unused)
igs 14436 0 (unused)
emf 18576 0 [igs]

I downloaded the file from google "modules-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.tgz" (your archive starts from 2907) but i'm not able to transfer it to the router, open the archive and do all the rest...i'm so sorry but my knowledge of Linux is very very low...

[!gm]

Maybe it's a problem of username and password...but i don't know where put them.

you are root on the router, but your nas is likely configured to map the root user to nobody and that is done for security reasons.

you can either mount the nfs share with any other user or export your share with the no_root_squash option (thats done on your nas)

you may read here http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/


"not able to transfer it to the router" - there are several ways, what about wget?

[tex]

i can only access to NAS web page and there is only possibility of enable/disable NFS. No configuring page.. no possibility to access with putty or to enable telnet/ssh on web page!
Samba is enabled also...there is a samba log file

[wpte]

I downloaded the file from google "modules-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.tgz" (your archive starts from 2907) but i'm not able to transfer it to the router, open the archive and do all the rest...i'm so sorry but my knowledge of Linux is very very low...

no worries!

you could open it with 7-zip on your pc if you want.

but this will do the trick on your router:

cd /mnt/
wget http://wl500g.googlecode.com/files/modules-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.tgz
#untar it:
tar zxvf ./modules-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.tgz
rm ./modules-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.tgz

you have a wl-500 router with the regular (d) firmware?

now you will have the directory /mnt/lib/ and find the file I told you about: smbfs.o (for kernel 2.4, kernel 2.6 uses .ko files)
just insmod the file like I explained and try again

for password protected shares try it this way:

mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /mountdirectory -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

[tex]

Thank you for your help, but i fell so near to the solution of my problem, but i can't reach it!!!! I've done insmod of smbfs.o (kernel is 2.4) thank's to your advise, but the result of mount is always the same

mount -t smbfs -o 192.168.1.168:/public/media /mnt/protec
t/Storage
mount: can't find /mnt/protect/Storage in /etc/fstab

There is no way to mount directly the NAS HD in the fstab like /opt and /mnt?
I'm so sorry of all the time i let you loose!

[!gm]

mkdir -p /mnt/protect/Storage

did you miss that? ^

There is no way to mount directly the NAS HD in the fstab like /opt and /mnt?
I'm so sorry of all the time i let you loose!

Sure you can do that:

thats the line. But make sure, that the mountpoint exists!!!

//192.168.1.168:/public/media /mnt/protect/Storage smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0

[wpte]

Thank you for your help, but i fell so near to the solution of my problem, but i can't reach it!!!! I've done insmod of smbfs.o (kernel is 2.4) thank's to your advise, but the result of mount is always the same

There is no way to mount directly the NAS HD in the fstab like /opt and /mnt?
I'm so sorry of all the time i let you loose!

hmm... not sure what that problem is...
I tried it in a different way. Instead of smbfs I used cifs to mount. cifs.o can also be found in the same fs (filesystem) directory as smbfs.o. please insmod it before doing this

I came across this nice site: http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html
which explains how to do it.

when I try it, I do get an error:

mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.2.1/share /tmp/mnt/samba
mount: mounting //192.168.2.1/share on /tmp/mnt/samba failed: Invalid argument

but guess what, df says it's mounted, plus I can browse files in /tmp/mnt/samba

it also explains how to do it in fstab. for that you have to place the cifs.o file in your flashfs space tho, since you can't read a file from a drive that isn't mounted

for example if you copy the cifs.o file like this:

cp /place/of/cifs.o /tmp/local/sbin/

after that, you can change your pre-mount:

vi /tmp/local/sbin/pre-mount

by entering this line directly after #! /bin/sh (on a new line obviously):

insmod /tmp/local/sbin/cifs.o

if you save the file now, and save the flashfs:

flashfs save
flashfs commit
flashfs enable

it should be done, after a reboot things will be mounted from your fstab

[tex]

@ !gm
The folder /mnt/protect/Storage exists and /mnt is correctly mounted in fstab. I can access it from windows and trough Putty. So i don't understand that error message!

@WPTE
This option looks nice, i'll try as soon as i go back home. The insmod procedure is the same of smbfs, just change the file? What i would like to try is the permanent way in the fstab, so after putting the insmod of cifs.o in pre-mount i must vi the fstab and add a line like this

//192.168.1.168/public/media /mnt/protected/Storage cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

all this after checking if the system works in the temporary way....
I will try tonight
thank you

[tex]

This is a summary of what i've done.
insmod cifs.o
[

admin@hd asus root]$ insmod /mnt/lib/modules/2.4.37.11/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.o
[admin@hd asus root]$

no error messages...
create new folder

[admin@hd asus root]$ mkdir -p /mnt/protected/share
[admin@hd asus root]$

mount

[admin@hd asus root]$ mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.1.168/public/media/Video
/film /mnt/protected/share
mount: mounting //192.168.1.168/public/media/Video/film on /mnt/protected/share failed: Invalid argument

The only difference from your line is that you put tmp/mnt/share (must i put tmp before /mnt/protected/share ??
Same error like WPTE (invalid argument), but exploring the /mnt/protected/share folder from my pc, it is empty...
And this is my df
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admin@hd asus root]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 3072 3072 0 100% /
/dev/root 3072 3072 0 100% /
tmpfs 15024 500 14524 4% /tmp
/dev/discs/disc0/part2
16010232 631996 14564948 5% /opt
/dev/discs/disc0/part3
464210468 13670452 450540016 3% /mnt
[admin@hd asus root]$

nothing seem different from before...
My router had been configured loading Headstart II with RAAS image disabling some feature in /opt/etc/init.d (because was too slow)

DK70mysqld
DS45php
DS58proftpd
DS70mysqld
DS80busybox_httpd
DS80lighttpd
DS90mediatomb
rc.unslung
S05syslogd
S10xinetd
S10cron
S60transmission
S90twonkymedia
S80samba

Maybe i've disabled some feature necessary for what i want to do???

[wpte]

I'm not sure you can create a mount inside a mounted thingy...
try creating a mount in /tmp/mnt/
so /tmp/mnt/mymount for example.

also are you sure it's not protected by a password?

[tex]

[admin@hd asus root]$ mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.1.168/public/media/Video/
film /tmp/mnt/protected/share
mount: mounting //192.168.1.168/public/media/Video/film on /tmp/mnt/protected/share failed: No such file or directory

Quite disapponted!!!

[!gm]

try the --verbose argument for detailed information

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs