Studying a networking problem

[Liamdale]

Sorry vinnywright; the mounting of the Media Player does not work

$ sudo mount //192.168.0.107/WDTVLive
[sudo] password for liamdale:
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 14 -- ignored
mount: can't find //192.168.0.107/WDTVLive in /etc/fstab

The instruction at line 14 are:
//192.168.0.107/WDTVLive /media/wdtv cifs username=guest,password=,nounix,rw,iocharset=utf8, file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

I left in the colours for effect but there must be an error. I will try and learn more on "cifs"

The media folder wdtv has been created

[wizard10000]

Hi Wizard; I found a ubuntu site dealing with MiniDLNA but I can't see (or know how) to configure it to see my WDTVLive device. My network sees the IP of the media player but can't identify it. The sample configuration deals with on board folders:

Attempts to mount the media player to the media folder has not worked to date. I will continue to try.

That's not how minidlna works. minidlna will serve up multimedia *to* a WD box but it won't access a hard drive you have plugged into it. If you're trying to mount the WDTV drive on a Linux box this might help, though -

https://community.wd.com/t/mounting-...on-linux/68000

Good luck

[Liamdale]

Thanks wizard

[vinnywright]

post the output of

cat /etc/fstab

VINNY

[Liamdale]

The contents of the fstab

$ cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=82c819b4-f696-4a75-b80d-896904ce69b8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=B979-405B /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

I removed //192.168.0.107/WDTVLive /media/wdtv cifs... since it didn't work

Based on a reference from wizard10000 I tried a variation but it didn't work either
//192.168.0.107/WDTVLive /media/wdtv cifs username=guest,password=,nounix,uid=liamdale,gid=l iamdale,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode= 0777 0 0

The output was

$ sudo mount //192.168.0.107/WDTVLive
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

at least I didn't get a parsing error for the command line

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that a network file or files included in Ubuntu 14.04 are missing in Kubuntu 17.04.

The network sees the IP but can't identify it. When I type arp -a in the ubuntu 14.04 terminal I get :

$ arp -a
WDTVLive.local (192.168.0.107) at 00:90:a9:62:84:c8 [ether] on eth0 <----- the media player is clearly identified
dlinkrouter (192.168.0.1) at c8:d3:a3:72:94:06 [ether] on eth0
liamdale.local (192.168.0.105) at 60:45:cb:a3:84:75 [ether] on eth0

[vinnywright]

if you were going to try it as a 1 time mount on the command line it would look like this ,,,,not that

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub   /media/wdtv

VINNY

[Liamdale]

Vinny I had already tried the command. I tried it again I had the same result

as suggested but without a password for root@//192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub

$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub /media/wdtv
[sudo] password for liamdale:
Password for root@//192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub:
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

The same with my owner password

$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub /media/wdtv
Password for root@//192.168.0.107/wdtvlivehub: ***********
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

With the correct name of the device and the owner (root) password

$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.107/WDTVLive /media/wdtv
Password for root@//192.168.0.107/WDTVLive: ***********
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I believe that the network does not see the device name: WDTVLive

I've even tried it without the device name, no success