Lag-na, thanks for you guidance, but unfortunately I failed to get it to work. Because my share is an HDD (Drobo) attached to the iMac. I couldn’t locate the share name the way you suggested, but I went to the sharing pane in system preferences and found that the name of the iMac is 27-inch-iMac and it can be accessed at 27-inch-iMac.local.
I followed your instructions, entering the Remote Directory path as "27-inch-iMac.local/Drobo/Music. It seemed to work; I got the nice green tick. I had done this on Volumio 1.4 which already had a successful NFS connection to Volumes/Drobo/Music. i.e. It appeared that I had two successful connections to the same music folder by two different methods.
I then reflashed the SD card with Volumio 1.4 so that I had a completely new installation without the NFS connection. Unfortunately, I have had no success with this so it looks like that for now I’ll have to revert to NFS.
If you have any other ideas I’ll like to try them.
You may get two lines if you are using both wired and wireless on your imac. In that case, go to the System Prefs, Network and check which one is which one and decide which one you want to use (I would say the wired one). Of course you can also check directly in System Prefs, Network without using the terminal, if you know where to look.
Anyway, take the IP of the interface you chose and put it in Volumio as server address. I would not use a Bonjour name (the ones “.local” are from Bonjour) for a SMB share. At least not as first try.
Since in OS X the name of the share is easily guessable, you may try to put “Volumes/Drobo/Music” as Remote directory. If it doesn’t work (try my advanced options too), than take out the first part and use only “Drobo/Music” (notice the lack of slash at the beginning in both cases).
Sorry, I don’t understand. I’ll wait until it’s sorted like it is with Rune 0.3alpha, where they have two different SMB/CIFS options; one for windows and one for Mac OS X.
the mount command takes a remote SMB folder and puts it in a local folder.
If you write
mount -t cifs LOCAL_PATH //IP_ADDRESS/REMOTE_PATH -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,ro,noatime,sec=[ntlm | ntlmv2] --verbose
it means “take the REMOTE_PATH located in the server IP_ADDRESS and show its content in the folder LOCAL_PATH”.
This means you need to have an existing (empty) folder LOCAL_PATH where you want to see the remote files. Typically these local paths are placed in /mnt.
Try to execute these two commands from the SSH shell:
mkdir /mnt/myNAS
mount -t cifs /mnt/myNAS //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,ro,noatime,sec=ntlmv2 --verbose
with obviously the actual username and password of the Mac.
No joy unfortunately. This is what I got, “mount: mount point //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music does not exist”.
And in the UI, " Last system mount error
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount. helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
I’m not sure whether I followed your instruction as you intended, but this is what I did and what was returned.
root@volumio:~# mount -t cifs //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music mnt/myNAS -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,ro,noatime,sec=ntlmv2 --verbose
mount: mount point mnt/myNAS does not exist
root@volumio:~# mount -t cifs //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music /mnt/myNAS -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,ro,noatime,sec=ntlmv2 --verbose
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //10.0.0.111/Drobo/Music,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
What I now don’t understand is how with V1.5 I can mount the previous share without having to do anything via ssh, but I can’t mount any folders on any other Macs on the network.