I like to keep my mass storage on a NAS, but I want the stock shares on my HDA to work as designed. the following is my method for mounting my NAS share as my "/var/hda/files" directory. I chose that spot for convenience but you can put it anywhere you would like. I used the "Connecting to a Server by Mounting your HDA" as a template so the credit has to go to it's author. Here we go...
* We need to create Everthing I did below is done in putty from a credential file to mount on startup: sudo nano /root/.smbcredentials *Add the following lines: (You must change hda_username cli interface, Install download putty and hda_password to the correct user enter you hda name and password for or address in the hda to connect to): address line. Login as root or "su -".
username=hda_usernamepassword=hda_password* We need to create a credential file to mount on startup:
* Save the file by hitting ctrl+x, type "y" to save the buffer, and <entercode> to exitnano /root/. * Now, change the permissions of the file so only root can read and edit it: smbcredentials</code>
sudo chmod 700 /root/*Add the following lines.smbcredentialsYou must change NAS_username and NAS_password to the correct user name and password for the NAS to connect to:
* Let's back up our fstab: sudo cp <code>username=NAS_username</etc/fstab /etc/fstab_oldcode> o If needed you may return to the original this way: sudo mv <code>password=NAS_password</etc/fstab_old /etc/fstab * Now we edit fstab: code>
sudo nano /etc/fstab
* Add this line at Save the endfile by hitting ctrl+x, type "y" to save the buffer, and <enter> to exit.* Now, change the permissions of the file so only root can read and edit it:
//hda/music /media/music cifs credentials= chmod 700 /root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
* Finally, test your settings Let's back up our fstab: cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_old* If needed you may return to make sure they workthe original this way: mv /etc/fstab_old /etc/fstab* Now we edit fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab * Add this line at the end (all in one line): //server/share /var/hda/files/music cifs credentials=/root /.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 * It may be the case that you do not know exacly the name of the NAS server or the share name as it exports it out. To find that, you can use this from the command line: # smbtree* If the share name has spaces, escape them with \040 (wtf? yeah in octal \040), e.g. //server/My\040Documents/My\040Music * Finally, test your settings to make sure they work: mount -a
