Mount Manager problem

[Chiller]

I have a 120GB HDD installed in my DM7000 locally which is working fine; however, I'd also like to mount my NAS to the dreambox and have the freedom of recording and playing back from either my local HDD or my NAS. I've been using the Mount Manager in the Colosseum 1.1 image to try and do this, however, I'm unable to successfully mount the NAS.

I'm using the following settings:

Description - Blank
Filesystem Type - 0
Auto Mount - not selected
Client Directory - /hdd
Server Directory - /dm7000 (This is a subdirectory on the root of the NAS)
IP: - 10.0.0.13 (IP address of NAS)
User Name: - not used
Password: - not used
Options: - rsize=4096,wsize=4096

On the right hand side of the tool, I have the bottom four options selected (nolock, intr, soft and udp).

If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

[skyshark]

Try as below - changed settings are red

Description - Blank
Filesystem Type - 1 (try as CIFS)
Auto Mount - not selected
Client Directory - /hdd
Server Directory - /dm7000 dm7000 (without backslash - very important!)
IP: - 10.0.0.13 (IP address of NAS)
User Name: - not used guest
Password: - not used guest
Options: - rsize=4096,wsize=4096

... I have the bottom four options selected (nolock, intr, soft and udp). I guess nolock & rw is enough

Hope this help

Last but not least: try to ping the NAS if it is visible for the dream.

[Chiller]

I tried this, however, I was unable to access either my local HDD or my NAS. The mount point for my local HDD is /hdd, should I be defining another mount point for my NAS?

Thanks

[skyshark]

It doesn't matter the local mountpoint, simply it must exist and has to be accessible.
But you must share a subdirectory on your local HDD (maybe on NAS also) and you must specify it's shared name. (Of course, the share name may be the same as the directory name)
How about ping? Was it successful?

[Chiller]

I didn't do the ping test, however, when I tried your suggestion above it definately showed up on the mount manager as being successful, so I'm guessing the dreambox could see the NAS, it's just that it wouldn't allow me to access either my local HDD or the NAS; essentially, when I went into file mode on the dreambox my system probably didn't know if I wanted the local HDD or my NAS.

Do I need to create another directory within the local HDD (i.e. /hdd/NAS) and mount this subdirectory to a directory within the NAS (i.e. /dm7000)? so that I have something similar to the following:

Description - Blank
Filesystem Type - 1
Auto Mount - not selected
Client Directory - /hdd/NAS
Server Directory - dm7000 (this is a subdirectory within my NAS that I have dedicated to the dreambox)
IP: - 10.0.0.13 (IP address of NAS)
User Name: - guest
Password: - guest
Options: - rsize=4096,wsize=4096


Thanks for your help

[skyshark]

Hi Chiller,

when you cd into a local directory on dream and this directory is mounted, you will be redirected to that place (shared directory on NAS or HDD).

So if you want to mount your local HDD and NAS simultaneously, you have to create different local mountpoints on Dream.

Regards,
Skyshark

[Chiller]

Hi Skyshark,

Well I'm getting close to completion. I've created a directory on my local HDD and named it NAS, and have created a directory on my NAS called dm7000 and mounted this to /hdd/NAS, and it now appears to be working.

My next plan is to start moving movies from my local HDD to my NAS in order to take advantage of the much larger storage capacity of the NAS. Do you have any experience or suggestions for doing this?

Thanks again...

[skyshark]

Hi,

nice to see you're close to completion. I think you can figure out the remaining stuff.
Just two advices:
- Do not move your movies at first, simply copy them, then try if the're running well on NAS. If no data loss occrurs, you can delete them from HDD.
- You can set local mountpoint to /hdd/movie so any further recordings will be done directly on NAS.

Good luck,
Skyshark