Moparmartin wrote:I use the network browser and it brings up everything on my network I click on the NAS and it shows the directories. You say I should have "an NFS and SMB share with the the same name." I don't. All I have is the directories expanded out under the NAS. There is no second NAS listing and no mention of the share type until I get into the detail. Opening the detail listing shows "Share type" as NFS. Selecting it and arrow right changes to CIFS and back to NFS. That tells me there are only 2 choices. At no point in this process have I seen anything saying SMB anywhere in the U4, only in my NAS. Am I doing something wrong or is the U4 missing something?
OK Martin,
1. CIFS is an implementation of SMB (often referred to as Samba). Since it doesn't work as NFS, you can try CIFS instead. It won't break anything. As MrQuade has shown in his post, there should be an icon in the Network Browser with CIFS next to the folder name. The red X means the folder is not mounted. If it is Green, the U4 thinks the folder is mounted. But, regardless - I always remount even if a folder is supposedly mounted to remove all doubt. The settings I have told you to use work on all my machines. Don't overthink it. Just try it and see if it works for you too.
2. Create the new Mountpoint using the Network Browser, if you haven't already done so.
3. Use MountpointManager to check, and if necessary, edit that Mountpoint to look
exactly like my earlier post with no username or password.
4. Save and activate the mount.
5. Go to Media/Location.
6. Open the folder name as per your NAS.
7. If it is fixed - great! Stop reading here.
8. If it is not fixed, go back to Mountpoint Manager.
9. Enter a username and password.
10. Save and activate the mount.
11. Go to Media/Location.
12. Open the folder name as per your NAS.
13. If it is fixed - great! If not, tell us and we'll try and figure out why not.
Moparmartin wrote:
Delving this deep makes me now ask how do these "shares" work? Please correct me if I'm wrong but, I guessed that The mount is simply telling the U4 that it has access to the NAS and that the Shares are allocating which folders can be accessed. I'm desperately trying to get a mud map in my head of what is trying to be achieved then tackling the detail to make it work, but I think I'm getting a bit lost in detail because the pieces of the puzzle don't fit. I would do a lot better I could know the basic steps or overview required without the detail. Maybe then I could understand what each suggestion is actually tackling. So far I just follow detail and run into something missing or not working and learn nothing from the process. This makes it very difficult to contribute to the solution.
You're nearly on track.
The Mount tells the U4 that it has access to the specific folder named in the mount.
That folder has certain restrictions or permissions attached to it, set by the NAS. If it is a public folder, this usually means at the very least, anyone can read the files in the folder. It usually also means that anyone can write to the folder or execute a program in the folder. The folder also has an associated access protocol which can be either NFS or CIFS (SMB).
The folder might require a user login before the user can access the files inside. If so, that is when you have to supply a username and password.
It is not easy to tell without checking the setup of your NAS, so we suggest you try without a username & password because that is the most likely choice. But, if that doesn't work, the next thing to try is with a username and password as set out above, as I suggest.