[SOLVED] Can't mount network drive

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OK. Here is my setup;

  1. Volumio 2.175 on RPi3 + Allo Boss connected via WiFi to my router Iskratel Innbox v45
  2. My external drive connected to my router via USB connection

I have successfully mapped the network drive on my Windows 10 PC, and I can use it just fine.

However, I am unable to add the network drive in Volumio. Automatic search didn’t find the drive. When I use manual add option, I can’t get the drive to mount. I get the red cross in mount section, and curiously; it says that the drive capacity is 373.80 MB. (it’s 1TB actually)

Here is my router network drive setup;


Here is my Volumio setup:

This is what I get:

I am new to RPi and have rather limited experience in Linux systems.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Cheers

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I think you need to carefully read about how the external drive is being shared by the router:

is it a cifs or a nfs share?
what is the share name?
what is the path to the share?
For example, my Synology NFS share has to be preceeded by ‘/volume1’, which is not immediately obvious when I set the share up.

Have you tried ‘mrezni/TandA’ as path?

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There is nothing to read. I wasn’t able to find any info on USB network drive sharing for my router. My ISP which gave me the router refused to help. I’m still waiting for an answer from router manufacturer.

Actually, network drive sharing on my router works fine. I can map the drive in Windows and everything works. I just can’t add it to Volumio.

I don’t know if it is cifs or nfs. Where can I check this? I did try both.

Share name is probably “VolumeName” in my settings. So I called it “mrezni”. I’m not sure though. The router UI is terrible as you can see. It makes no sense.

I don’t know what the path is. I didn’t assign any specific folder path when I mapped the drive in Windows. When I did, it was mapped as; “\192.168.1.1\TandA”

I believe I did try “mrezni/TandA” as path. I tried everythign I could think of. Every combination. However, it could be possible that I missed something due to all the possible combinations.

What is “\volume1” in your case?

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If you can see it in Windows it is probably ‘cifs’ and it looks as though it has a share name of ‘TandA.’

So, put path as ‘TandA’ (you might need an ‘/’ before that???). You now just need to know a cifs user and password … username looks like ‘TandA’, and of course you know the password. Good luck :slight_smile:

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Well, I tried all combos once again, and it didn’t work. So in all the desperation I tried to create a new network storage share user on my router, and lo and behold; I got the drive mounted.

I have no explanation but to conclude that for some reason Volumio didn’t like the previous user account. Or maybe it was in some kind of conflict with some other device where the network drive is in use.

Thanks!

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Perhaps it was a permissions problem with the original account. Anyhow, glad that you’ve got it sorted :slight_smile:

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A power problem meant I had to re-install Volumio… I too cannot get it to see my Synergy NAS folders despite it working perfectly the day before and still does with Moode.

I have tried all the usual stuff…ensuring shared folders etc but even when inputting the NAS settings manually nothing works.

What a shame as I prefer Volumio over Moode.

Richard

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Try setting the right ciffs version in the Options field, with vers=1.0 or vers=2.0 depending on your NAS.
If you search, you’ll find quite a few posts outlining this.