Comments on: Connecting Linux or UNIX system to Network attached storage device

By: In Through The Out Door » NAS from Linux

In Through The Out Door » NAS from Linux — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:52:24 +0000

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By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:07:43 +0000

Doug,

It is already covered, see Access NAS server using NFS protocol under Linux or UNIX

There is a link at the bottom of article.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:25:49 +0000

No mention of NFS?

Have we fallen so far?

By: rdk

rdk — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:31:55 +0000

Excellent information.

Regards,

rdk

By: Maged

Maged — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:20:15 +0000

If you recall well, you can get smbfs to support files larger than 2 GB by passing lfs (large file support) to its mount option.

By: djs

djs — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:04:23 +0000

forget mounting the cifs share. use tar/star and pipe it into smbclient! or if you don’t care about security, piping it into an ftp client is probably a little faster over the wire.

/djs

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Mon, 22 May 2006 06:49:49 +0000

CIFS is well supported on 2.6 kernels and many modern distributions have support for it by default, so no kernel recompile is needed. Not only CIFS is newer and has support for 2GB, but also has enhanced features like STEGO session setup and Kerberos support.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sun, 21 May 2006 01:21:47 +0000

Yes you can use that too. Remember before using CIFS you may need to patch kernel or recompile kernel. Once done you can insert cifs.ko module:

# modprob cifs

Sometime you may get an error that read as follows:
cifsd: page allocation failure. order:3

Instead of above command use following:
# modprobe cifs CIFSMaxBufSize=15000

And use following command to access NAS:
# mount -t cifs //NAS/share /backup -o rw,username=nixcraft,domain=mydomain,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755

Hope this helps :) Read man page mount.cifs for more info.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 20 May 2006 22:27:26 +0000

Please stop telling people to use smbfs. It is depreciated (as it only supports up to 2GB files for example)

Use cifs instead (and forget smbmount as it used smbfs).