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December 7, 2010 03:58 AM

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saboto

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hello, is there any way I can share a network hd via pogo? I have an WD my book world edition already available in my home LAN and I would like to share everything from there without adding another usb hard disk. thank you saboto

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February 6, 2011 5:20 PM updated: February 6, 2011 5:35 PM

Ditto. I have a NAS on my network that is an NFS server, but the popoplug doesn't seem to want to mount it. I ssh into the popoplug and tried:
mount servername:/SHARE /tmp/nas -t nfs
but I just get an Input/output error

Anyone been able to mount an NFS share to a pogoplug?

EDIT: Nevermind, doesn't look like out of the box the pogoplug has a full NFS client implementation. Anyone know if it supports any network sharing protocols? Is it even possible out of the box? Or do I have to put a different open firmware?

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February 15, 2011 6:46 PM

Qman said: Ditto. I have a NAS on my network that is an NFS server, but the popoplug doesn't seem to want to mount it. I ssh into the popoplug and tried: mount servername:/SHARE /tmp/nas -t nfs but I just get an Input/output error Anyone been able to mount an NFS share to a pogoplug? EDIT: Nevermind, doesn't look like out of the box the pogoplug has a full NFS client implementation. Anyone know if it supports any network sharing protocols? Is it even possible out of the box? Or do I have to put a different open firmware?

I got it working like so:

First: You'll need to specify a few NFS options in pogoplug:/etc/fstab.  Here's what's working for me:

192.168.120.5:/shared/music/mp3 /mnt/mp3 nfs hard,udp,nolock 0 0

Second: PogoPlug will only scan media that resides on a drive plugged into one of its USB ports, so you've got to trick it.  I plugged in an old thumb drive and added a symlink to the NFS mount, like so:

cd /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1
ln -s /mnt/mp3

Go to Media Settings and click "re-scan", and then PogoPlug will start parsing the metadata on your mp3s.

Hope that helps! :)

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February 18, 2011 5:26 PM

You can also load cifs.ko and mount a samba share onto your pogoplug. The instructions are at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/PlugComputers and the binary is at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-general/files/Plug%20Files/ (use at your own risk, no warranties). Above is for pogoplugs other than Pro, Pro already includes this.

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February 18, 2011 5:26 PM updated: February 18, 2011 5:28 PM

Really hate these context popups, duplicate posts occur due to this.

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April 4, 2011 8:23 AM updated: April 4, 2011 6:48 PM

Hi,

After reading this I still have problems connecting to my NAS. That's probably because I don't completely understand this technical info.
But I hope you guys can help me in easy steps how to connect my WD My Book Live to my pogoplug Pro.
At this moment my pogoplug doesn't see the NAS.

Thanks for your help.

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April 5, 2011 8:17 AM

The pro should be able to see your NAS, and mount the drives, unless something is not communicating correctly.

SSH into the Pro, and attempt to ping your NAS. If this fails, we've got bigger problems.

As for mounting the share, the Pro's kernel has the cifs module available by default so, this ought to work, assuming "mynas" is a directory at the base of the usb drive, anonymous access is available:
`mount -t cifs -o user=none //192.168.1.X/share /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/mynas`

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June 6, 2011 10:05 PM

Dumb question, is this using the out of the box PogoPlug firmware? I haven't been able to get the mount to work to the NFS server.

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August 24, 2011 1:19 AM

Thanks for the posts so far on this topic

I am trying to mount a smb share that resides on a Freenas box. From what i have read this should be easy. However the pogo is not able to ping the freenas box at all. Is there any way to run a diagnostic tool on the pogo to see what is happening? I am familiar with tools such as ifconfig, iptables, netstat, etc. But these do not appear to be available on the OS. What flavour of Linux is it anyway...?

Any help appreciated.

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