Author Topic: [SOLVED] How to connect LXDE to a NAS running samba?  (Read 1330 times)

Offline baupres

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[SOLVED] How to connect LXDE to a NAS running samba?
« on: November 11, 2010, 03:32:20 PM »
I have got a computer running LXDE and a NAS running samba and 2 shares: //LACIE-D2/Share and //LACIE-D2/Public
I have succeeded to connect and mount the shares in another computer running KDE thanks to smb4k utility. I can even see them in  Dolphin.
In another PC have tried to connect through Lineighborhood and Pyneighborhood in LXDE. Lineighborhood can see the shares but fail to mount them as it alerts it needs smbmount which I can not find in the repositories. Pyneighborhood can not even see the shares.

So, my question is how to make LXDE automount the shares in the startup. My samba workgroup is "inicioms".
//LACIE-D2/Share needs a user and a password but they are not required in //LACIE-D2/Public.
The NAS iP is 192.168.35.21
I Know I need to set two entries in FSTAB but I have never succeed dealing with it because I find it very confusing.

Please, can anyone give me a hand with this?
« Last Edit: November 12, 2010, 05:12:42 PM by baupres »

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Re: How to connect LXDE to a NAS running samba?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2010, 04:49:20 PM »
Have you tried setting it up through PCC - Network Sharing ?

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Re: How to connect LXDE to a NAS running samba?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 02:26:06 AM »
Yes, I have tried through PCC but I have not succeed. I am sure I have miss something. Perhaps I have to give it a second try.
I have succeed in connecting the printer through PCC quite easily but i had no luck with the shares.
By the way, Gnome is extremely friendly connecting with shares (I did it in a few clicks) but I can not install gnome in this slow computer. Let me give PPC a try and I will let you know what the outcome is.

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Re: [SOLVED] How to connect LXDE to a NAS running samba?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2011, 05:04:01 AM »
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