Hi all,
Just tried to be as descriptive as possible in the title. I’m running Opensuse 11.4, KDE 4.6.5 under Tumbleweed repos.
I have an external HD with two partitions (Argos & Hercules) mounted in fstab as follows:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0_WD-WXA1A8011853-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0_WD-WXA1A8011853-part6 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0_WD-WXA1A8011853-part7 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0_WD-WXA1A8011853-part2 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0_WD-WXA1A8011853-part8 /windows/DATA ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GEVSAZH-0:0-part1 /media/Argos ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GEVSAZH-0:0-part2 /media/Hercules ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
As you can see they are mounted under /media/. The thing is that I wanted to share Hercules in my home network with samba as I have my multimedia there. Everything runs smoothly if I access the files from my wife’s netbook, but a problem arises when I’m trying to get to the shared resource from an android tablet. I’m able to mount with the tablet any directory with cifs except dirs. from the external HD. I mean, I can mount 192.168.1.100/home ; 192.168.1.100/DATA ; 192.168.1.100/(whatever shared folder through SAMBA) EXCEPT a folder form any partitions of the external HD (//192.168.1.100/Hercules). When I do that, it connencts, but I simply get an “empty” directory.
Yes, the problem is weird as I have no problem at all mounting/viewing in the other netbook. The problem seems to be with the android tablet. I thought first it could be an Android problem, or whatever the cifs application… but why I can mount and work with any other shared resource except the external HD?? Also tried two different cifs apps. and same problem.
Maybe I’m missing something in my fstab file… but that’s why I’m asking for a bit of help! I tried to mount to /mnt/ instead to /media/ but I just couldn’t, always mounted to /media.
I’m also attaching my smb.conf just in case, but the shared dirs config’s are all the same:
[global]
workgroup = HOMENET
server string =
map to guest = Bad User
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
printcap name = cups
os level = 64
preferred master = Auto
local master = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
cups options = raw
use client driver = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
[Hercules]
path = /media/Hercules/
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = Luk
[Argos]
path = /media/Argos/
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = Luk
[Luk]
path = /home/Luk/
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = Luk
[Docs]
path = /windows/DATA/Documents/
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = Luk
I was also reading the Samba HowTo: Mount a CIFS Network Share [Mapped Drive] in openSUSE guide, but I’m a bit confused on how to mount in fstab as I’m wondering if this would be added to the already existing lines, or they replace the actual lines for my external drives but at the same time would give me local access to the drives?
Anyway, hope I was clear enough and also hope somebody can give me a hand with this as I cannot get it to work.
Thanks a lot!