Accessing Shares on a Linksys Nslu2

I recently moved to my new apartment and since my old server takes to much place and makes way to much noise. I decided to migrate all the services to my Linksys NSLU2, which still wasn’t used. At this moment I only use it as a file-server, but I already putted unslung as firmware on it, cause I’m planning to use it as a fetchmail, imap and webmail frontend. Don’t have a clue if I can get this working or that the NSLU2 is fast enough for this, but as soon as I know I’ll post it. Back to the point, since the NSLU2 runs on a small Linux distribution I thought it should be really, really easy to mount the shares, but the truth is, it isn’t. It took me about 2 hours before I found the solution and the most strange thing is, I don’t have a clue why the solution does work. Normally I would mount a share on a way that looks similar like:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pw //ip_nslu/share /mnt/test

but for some strange reason I don’t get any permission on the share, when I use this way of mounting, to get the right permission I have to use the uid and the gid option. Don’t ask me why, but it works :) if somebody could tell me why this solves the problem, I really like to hear it. So the working command looks like:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pw,uid=linux_user,gid=linux_user //ip_nslu/share /mnt/test

Rob Maas
Rob Maas
Technical Challanger at ON2IT

If it is broken, fix it! If it ain’t broken, make it better!

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