On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've bought a drive with usb and network connection. I used the usb to quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it onto the network after that. The blurb on the box said it would just pick an ip by dhcp. However, it seems to me that I need to know something about it in order to mount it, and I've got a total blank on where to go next. Nothing appears in /var/log/messages. I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry in /etc/hosts. Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I haven't a clue how to mount it. Any ideas?
I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can start looking around in the mean time. Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort. There are probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into Gnome/KDE at this point. As a last ditch effort, you could turn on a packet sniffer (assuming that the drive and your sniffer are on the same ethernet segment and not separated by a switch) and look for the SMB advertisement blocks. --wpd
