Auto Mount 2 Hard Drives Attached By USB To Router

Hi there guys,

I hope you can help me with a small issue that is kinda driving me crazy.
I'm running debian wheezy on a virtual machine and trying to mount some shares from the win8.1 host.
The lines I put in the /etc/fstab a
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//192.168.0.10/dir1 /home/user/dir1 cifs credentials=/root/.secret.pwd,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//192.160.0.10/dir2 /home/user/dir2 cifs credentials=/root/.secret.pwd,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//192.160.0.10/dir3 /home/user/dir3 cifs credentials=/root/.secret.pwd,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

The first share gets mounted correctly, but not the other two.
This is the output I get when sudo-ing a mount -a:
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mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

and this is what /var/log/syslog shows:
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Mar 24 12:56:12 hostname kernel: [ 1887.029043] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
Mar 24 12:56:12 hostname kernel: [ 1887.030013] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115
Mar 24 12:56:22 hostname kernel: [ 1897.052130] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
Mar 24 12:56:22 hostname kernel: [ 1897.053885] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115

The same happens at boot time.

Now, the crazy thing is that if I run manually a:
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sudo mount //192.168.0.10/dir2 /home/user/dir2 -t cifs -o credentials=/root/.secret.pwd,uid=1000,gid=1000

it works perfectly.

Now, I'm no power user, but I thought I'd be able to manage a couple of simple cifs shares...but then again I guess not
So, my questions so far a
1. how the heck do I make that work?
2. why is it not working? Might be the security? Should I choose perhaps ntlmv2? I read a bit around but I don't know this kind of security mechanisms, so...
3. why on earth is the first mount working just like a charm and not the other two?

You know what? I'm trying now to remove the sec option from the fstab, and see how that works out.

In the meantime, if anyone could lend a hand I'd appreciate it very much

i bought new 320gb hard drive

and using windows i partitioned it into two

my problem now i cant mount the hard drive

and i cant find the other partition

plz help me the proper way to install


thanks so much

I am trying to configure a Raspberry Pi to run as a file server, have installed SAMBA and have attached a 1TB external hard drive, which appears to have 4 partitions. Using Xwindows, I thought I had the advertised share mapped to the 1TB partition. So I physically placed the Pi in its permanent home (where it is difficult to get its video signal to a monitor etc.), so help with command line tools is best for me.

My problem is the share is acting like it only has about 2GB of space. And I am not sure why the mount command does not show me the partition.

I have attached to this post some output which has me baffled.

Thanks
Jonathan

Hi. I've installed Arch Linux on a Wandboard running Logitech Media Server (LMS). LMS needs to read my music files off of a NAS network share. I can't figure out how to mount that network share.

I was told by someone who has a similar NAS to make the following entry in etc/fstab:

//192.168.10.15/media/Music /mnt/netdrive cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,user=nobody,password="",iocharse t=utf8,noperm,nounix,nobrl 0 0

But when I start LMS and point it to /mnt/netdrive, my media/Music folder isn't shown. Is there a problem with the way I'm trying to mount the network share?

I've tried using "root" and "admin" as username and the admin password of the NAS as password, but still no luck. I've tried mounting the share manually, but I get a "permission denied" error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My attempts to back-up to an external hard disk finally met with apparent success but I cannot now mount the target drive.

To summarize:-
1. Installing a SATA hard disk, identical to my computer's main drive, in a USB 2.0 caddy and attaching this to the computer resulted in qualified recognition. 'fdisk' 'saw' both the main drive, as sda, and the USB drive, as sdb, respectively but initially noted that the latter, “... doesn't contain a valid partition table.” This was hardly surprising. At the point of first connection the external drive was essentially a 'bare metal' device, having had its data wiped. Nevertheless, 'fdisk' correctly reported its size, number of heads and cylinders, etc.
2. 'dmesg' also correctly identified the external disk as sdb, reporting its type and the USB port to which it is connected.
3. 'df' ignores the second hard drive, reporting only the main disk.
4. Attempts to clone/back-up the main disk to the external disk using the recommended tools EaseUS Todo back-up and RedoBackup, booting respectively from appropriate USB memory sticks, both failed. Neither utility was prepared to write to the external disk. EaseUS acknowledged the latter but crashed the whole computer when instructed to perform the clone. RedoBackup failed to recognize the external disk.
5. Then came the break-through. A bit more Net browsing led me to try the command 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb'. The main disk was bit-copied (cloned) to the external disk at roughly 20Gb per hour, meaning that my 80Gb disk was copied in just under 4 hours. Checking 'dd's resulting report showed what appeared to be a perfect copy.

So far, so good. I now have a back-up which, being identical to the main disk, should, I assume, be bootable. In the event of trouble with the main disk I should be able simply to exchange it for the external disk and carry on from the point at which I made my last back-up. I cannot, however, access and read the external disk. I assume that it must have a partition table and be mounted. The first requirement appears to have been resolved by the cloning operation. 'fdisk' reports no trouble with the partition table on the cloned external disk. It lists /dev/sb1 as the bootable Linux partition, /dev/sdb2 as the Extended partition and /dev/sdb5 as the Linux swap / Solaris partition, exactly mirroring the corresponding entries for the main, sda, drive.

My attempts to mount the external disk have all failed, however. I clearly do not understand the syntax of the mount command or have failed to meet some other requirement. 'mount' objected without hesitation to my early mistakes but “mount -t dev/sdb” was instantly accepted. No error messages or other output resulted and the command prompt was immediately redisplayed but 'mount' then failed to show that the external drive had been mounted. If I try something like 'mount -t /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xdisk', where xdisk is a directory I have been told to create, then I am presented with a prolix description of 'mount's syntax, most of which leaves me bewildered. 'mount' then once again confirms that sdb1 does not feature in the list of mounted devices.

Can someone offer any suggestions? I have read one or two of the other posts on this topic but none of the details match my problem too well and I did not understand some of the replies. If I try to add a line to /etc/fstab, for example, I find that I do not have a directory called 'fstab', only 'fstab.d' and that is empty.

I have roughly one year's experience with Linux Mint 13 which I chose because it so closely resembled Windows XP.

Hello everyone,

I recently had an issue where I lost my whole backup server due to an electrical overload causing my server to literally explode and fried all 4 of my terabyte drives.... needless to say, I have no more backups because of this, and everywhere I read about backups said that setting up a raid array would allow me to keep good backups.... boy did I learn this lesson the hard way in needing to have some sort of external backup option, which brings me to this post and my questions:

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server on an older Dell Poweredge 600sc, and I was thinking of using WD Passport 1Tb external drives to be used as my "offsite" backup option. I don't have a lot of data, and my current backup schedule is only a weekly backup, so thinking that if I have two of these passport drives so that I can have one drive offsite and one attached to the server, and rotate them every 4 weeks so as not to loose all my data.

Here's my question: Ideally, I would love to just be able to unplug the current drive, plug in the new drive and have everything work. However, I don't see this actually working, but if there's a way to do this, that would be totally awesome.... ;-)

So, realistically, I know I will have to unmount the one drive, unplug it, then plug in the new drive and mount it on the system. Is there a way to mount this to the same mount point automatically so that I don't have to rewrite my backup script each time I swap drives out so that the backups go to the same mount point? Or will the UUID's get messed up each time I do this?

Hopefully this makes sense and an easy solution can be found to accomodate this idea.....

Thanks again for all your help. This site is awesome for newbies such as myself........

Mikey

I recently bought a WD external hard drive for storing file of several types. Using gparted I made two partitions, one ntfs for windows files and an ext 4 for linux files. Strangely, I have complete access to ntfs partition from linux side of duel boot system, but do not have permission to access ext4 partition. My root password does not work when I use su to gain root access. It works fine on built in hard drive.

I've just started tinkering with Linux and have a question about installing it to my current machine.

I'm running Win 7 Pro and have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box on the C:\ drive which is a 256 GB SSD. I want to create a 15 GB virtual hard drive on a second internal hard drive that has more space on it, and install Zorin 9.1 to it. Currently my C: drive is about 60% full and I'd rather not fill it up past that.

So my question is: Can I run Zorin off of a hard drive other than the C: drive?

Thanks for your consideration.

Dave

I have a Toshiba Laptop that had a Dual Boot of Windows 7 and Linux Mint 17 on it and both OS's worked fine. I've been wanting to use CentOS 7 as my primary OS so that I can become more familar with RPM management and proceeded to remove my Mint installation and replace it with the CENTOS 7 installation, and the install completed successfully. HOWEVER, here's my problem.....

When my laptop starts up, I don't see GRUB nor do I have any option of selecting whether to run Windows or CentOS. It automatically loads up Centos 7. When I do a 'sudo fdisk -l', I can see that SDA1 is an NTFS drive, and when I try the following 'sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Main\ Drive' I get an error message saying that I can't mount an NTFS drive.

Am I missing something or is there a way to access my Windows files from within Centos. I was able to do this with Mint without an issue, but unable to see any of my windows drives because I can't mount an NTFS drive.

I have no problem with keeping CENTOS as my only OS on this laptop, however, I do need to access the files from the Window's partition, and if anyone can help me to access my files, that would be totally awesome.

Thank you in advance for reading through this and for any help offered.....

Mikey

mount -t cifs //192.168.86.135/home/ /smbdata/ -o ussername=localhost.localdomain/smbuser,password=x
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


192.168.86.135 is my primary server IP and i tried to mount from another server which is accessible

Please help