LinkStation, CIFS and Fedora Core 5 - how to mount

[Jeff Macdonald]

Hi all,
This week I got a Buffalo LinkStation Home Server, which is basically
a NAS type device that exports a SMB mount point. I have a Fedora Core
3 system which is able to mount the device using smbmount but is
unable to write more than 2G to it. At first I thought this was a
LinkStation issue but I now suspect it is a FC3 issue.

I also have FC5 on a laptop. FC5 doesn't include smbmount. However, I
am able to use smbclient to attach to the LinkStation. FC5 uses CIFS
as a file system type instead of SMB. I haven't set up any users on
the LinkStation, so the proper command should be (as root):

# mount -tcifs //data/share /mnt/data -o guest

but I get this error:

mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

After much trial and error (while I was composing this message) I
found the proper command:

# mount -tcifs //data/share /mnt/data -o guest,user=guest

So this message is now more of a FYI type message as it started out as
a HELP! message. :-)

PS: I'm partially through a copy using Nautilis (just got passed the
2G limit), so at least the smb client library in gnome doesn't have a
2G limitation and this seems to prove that the LinkStation can handle
> 2G file sizes. I'll report back on CIFS results.

--
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA