Can't see (read) shared folders in Public on NAS drive

[malc]

I've got a NAS drive, Western Digital MyWorldBook.  I created a private folder for myself (through the software running on virtual XP).  Under Linux I used the Configure Windows Shares (SMB) in the PCLOS Control centre to setup access to both my folder (Malcolm) and the default public folder ( Public).  I can read/write to Malcolm no problem but I cannot see anything in Public, there should be Shared Video, Shared Music and Shared Pictures folders.

I have set noperm, uid=100 and gid=100 along with no username/password (%) , my NAS username/password and then the NAS admin username/password. No combination works.

I can access Public via Virtual Xp, Web app under PCLOS and FTP under PCLOS.  So it's not a show stopper getting stuff on there (FTP) for everybody else in the house to read. But, pretty unuseable for myself and PCLOS via a web browser to read!  I would like to point Amorak at "Shared Music"!

I'm sure there is the bleedin obvious staring me in the face but I can't see it.

[muungwana]

what do you mean by "virtual XP".

You have some sort of a NAS box, set up some sort of a private folder in "virtual xp", Under linux, you set up two folders, one work as expected, the other doest.

What is the relationship btw the two folders set in PCC and the private folder set in virtual xp? Your set up is hard to visualize. If you set up two folders and one work and the other doesnt, try to retake the steps you took when setting up the folder that work should be the first place to start

[malc]

MyWorldBook NAS drive only came with Mac and Windows installation software (which turns out to be nothing more than a way to run the admin software via a browser, did not know that at the time).

So in order to setup the NAs drive I need a windows environment, hence, I start up XP using virtualbox (virtualXP I referred to).  So everything is OK from XP I can see the Public folder and the 3 shared medi specific subfolders as previously mentioned.  I can transfer data from PCLOS to the drive via a shared folder between XP and PCLOS (very awkward but possible).

Back in PCLOS where I really want to have access to the drive. I used Configure My Computer > Network Sharing > Configure Windows(R) Shares, to setup the two folders, the private folder I created called Malcolm and the default Public folder.  This works for the private folder but not the public folder.  I have tried various combinations of settings and username/passwords but to no avail.

I can access the Public folder via a web browser (not recommended) and FTP (OK for upload only) but not as a network drive.  I can access the private folder using Dolphin.  So the bit that is missing is that the Public folder does not seem to be correctly mounted or has some permissions set that prevents me from accessing it.  The odd thing is that the private folder works fine.

To summarise:

PCLOS access to NAS Public folder using Dolphin does not work.
PCLOS access to NAS Public folder using ftp and web browser works fine.
PCLOS access to NAS private folder using Dolphin,ftp,web browser etc works fine.
XP (thru PCLOS virtualbox) access to NAS Public folder using Explorer,Internet Explorer and Firefox works fine.
XP (thru PCLOS virtualbox) access to NAS Private folder using Explorer,Internet Explorer and Firefox works fine.

In addition:
IPad access to Public folder works fine
PS3 access to Public folder works fine.

In fact everything in my house can access that Public folder except PCLOS.

One thing I did notice last night was that if I have my private folder mounted in PCLOS I cannot access it from anywhere else. Which is OK and makes sense.  However this did make me think that the mounting of the Public drive has to be done differently since it needs to be shared.  At this point I have no idea.

[muungwana]

Its odd that pclinuxos is the only system that cant access that folder, its a bit more odd that it can see one folder and not the other.

Where are the two folders on the NAS? Are they on two different locations? Does the full path to the one that doesnt work have a space in it?

How exactly do you access the network shares?

Open the terminal and type this command and press enter and just press enter again when asked for a password and post its output here. Please also mention what system is your NAS system if its name shows up on the list.

[malc]

Been on holiday, now back and still have the same problem.

The file structure on the NAS drive is

Download
Malcolm
<a.n.other user>
Public
  Shared Pictures
  Shared Music
  Shared Videos

I can read/write to Malcolm no problem. I can read/write to any other user as well.  The public folders Download and Public
cannot be read.  I can see from ftp that the file permissions on all folders is identical.

What was the command to enter into a terminal session?

Thanks,

Malcolm

[knome]

In my PCLOS Control Centre there are two entries under Network Sharing > Configure Windows(R) shares. One is Access Windows (SMB) shared drives and directories and the other is Share drives and directories with Windows (SMB) systems. Do you have both items?

Are you running a Firewall? Perhaps this is causing a problem.