Mounting a NAS Share

[Guest]

Hi:

I'm running Intrepid and have a NAS drive with several folder which I would like to have mounted (similar to MS "map network drive" option.
I can navigate to the folders via Dolphin which is enough for most things but I would like to have the folder which contains my iTunes library mounted so that Songbird can point to it.
The Nas folder has no password set on it.

I have create a mount point called backup in media and tried the following line in fstab

//cygnus/Backup /media/backup cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,uni code 0 0

and tried sudo mount -a

but get

mount error 5 = Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

[jglen490]

Re: Mounting a NAS Share

In referring to

man fstab

, which I do because I don't make many changes to fstab very frequently , the third field's entry (cifs) refers to the filesystem used by the device being mounted. I tried to do

man mount.cifs

, but I don't have a man file for that file system. If that is the actual file name, then it must appear in the list of filesystems supported by your kernel found in

/proc/filesystems

. If that filesystem is not there, then you can't mount it. There may be a way to incorporate that filesystem into a custom kernel, but that is beyond my ken.

On the other hand, you indicate that the drive shows up in Dolphin. That being the case, the actual filesystem might be something other than cifs. If you can figure out the actual filesystem name, then just change your fstab entry and then try a manual

 mount -a

as a test.