On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've bought a drive with usb and network connection. I used the usb to
> quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it onto
> the network after that. The blurb on the box said it would just pick an
> ip by dhcp. However, it seems to me that I need to know something about
> it in order to mount it, and I've got a total blank on where to go next.
> Nothing appears in /var/log/messages.
>
> I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry
> in /etc/hosts. Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I
> haven't a clue how to mount it. Any ideas?
I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
start looking around in the mean time.
Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort. There are
probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
Gnome/KDE at this point.
I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as ext3
and a small part as vfat. Maybe I have to go back to usb connection and set
the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them.
As a last ditch effort, you could turn on a packet sniffer (assuming
that the drive and your sniffer are on the same ethernet segment and
not separated by a switch) and look for the SMB advertisement blocks.
Later, if necessary.
Thanks
Anne