Accessing Network Attached Storage device

mha · #1 25th April 2008, 08:51 AM

I have a networked WD MyBook, connected to 192.168.2.41. I map a network drive from windows, but donno how to mount the network drive from Fedora

Some1 please write the line required in FSTAB or anywhere else for me to access the drive.

Thanks and regards
mha

***glennzo*** · #2 25th April 2008, 09:43 AM

I have one attached to another Fedora box. It's shared using Samba. It's accessible through normal network browsing. Nothing needed in terms of an /etc/fstab entry. Share the drive by adding something like this to your /etc/samba/smb.conf

Code:

[FreeAgent]
Comment = Witty comment
path = /media/FreeAgent
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
public = yes

Then run testparm to check the file for errors Next create a password for the user that will access the drive.

Code:

smbpasswd -a (name of user to access the drive)

Restart samba

Code:

/sbin/service smb restart
/sbin/service nmb restart